present study contributes to this literature by estimating the returns to education in Georgia during the last transition … period 2000-04. We find very low returns to education in Georgia and little evidence of an increasing trend in the returns …. This picture contrasts with somewhat higher rates of return to education in the mid-1990s in Georgia and the recent …

. Entrepreneurs are reshaping the business environment, creating a world in which their companies play an important role in the … great potential lies in applying business principles within existing organizations. …

Using confidential microdata from the Characteristics of Business Owners, we examine why African-American owned … businesses lag substantially behind white-owned businesses in sales, profits, employment, and survival.  Black business owners … are much less likely than white owners to have had a self-employed family member owner prior to starting their business …

period, first the post-World War baby boom and then the substantial increase in education led to higher economic growth than … otherwise expected. As the pace of increase in education slowed and the workforce aged toward the end of the period, human …

could also improve their education outcomes. Given the importance of education for economic development, this link could be … the impact of child health on education outcomes, but there are formidable obstacles to obtaining credible estimates. Data … sources of bias when attempting to estimate relationships between child health and education. This Chapter provides an …