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We study gender and race in high-impact entrepreneurship using a tightly controlled randomized field experiment. We … email was sent by a fictitious entrepreneur with randomly assigned gender and race. Female entrepreneurs received 9% more …
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The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) helped to preserve employment relationships during thesudden shutdown of economic activity due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In this paper, we analyzeaccess of the minority and women-owned businesses to PPP loans. Our quantitative results showthat a...
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In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...
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This paper examines the impact of financial deregulation on entrepreneurship. We assess the impact of credit card …
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In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010633265
This paper examines the impact of financial deregulation on entrepreneurship. We assess the impact of credit card …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010593846
institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography … context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship takes place and when this happens. Where context has been studied in … relation to gender and women, the focus has been on the influence of social contexts such as networks, family and household …
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access to new financing options change the gender configuration of informal economic activity and, if so, in what ways and … access in promoting entrepreneurship among informal sector firms in India. Our results are robust to alternative …
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access to new financing options change the gender configuration of informal economic activity and, if so, in what ways and … access in promoting entrepreneurship among informal sector firms in India. Our results are robust to alternative …
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Occupational segregation significantly contributes to the earnings gender gap worldwide. We look at differences in … entrepreneurship. Data on Uganda show that women breaking into male-dominated sectors make as much as men, and three times more than …
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