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Long-term Direct and Spillover Effects of Job Training : Experimental Evidence from Colombia

Kugler, Adriana - 2015

We use administrative data to examine medium and long-term formal education and labor market impacts among participants and family members of a randomized vocational training program for disadvantaged youth in Colombia. In the Colombian program, vocational training and formal education are...

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The 2021 Paycheck Protection Program Reboot : Loan Disbursement to Employer and Nonemployer Businesses in Minority Communities

Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Was the $278 billion reboot of the $800 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) in early 2021 disbursed equitably to minority communities? This paper provides the first analysis of how PPP funds were disbursed to minority communities in the third and final round of the program, which was...

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Efficacy vs. Equity : What Happens When States Tinker with College Admissions in a Race-Blind Era?

Black, Sandra E. - 2014

College admissions officers face a rapidly changing policy environment where court decisions have limited the use of affirmative action. At the same time, there is mounting evidence that commonly used signals of college readiness, such as the SAT/ACTs, are subject to race and socioeconomic bias....

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Can a Summer Make a Difference? The Impact of the American Economic Association Summer Program on Minority Student Outcomes

Becker, Charles M. - 2014

In the 1970s, the American Economic Association (AEA) was one of several professional associations to launch a summer program with the goal of increasing racial and ethnic diversity in its profession. In this paper we estimate the effectiveness of the AEA's program which, to the best of our...

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The Right Stuff? Personality and Entrepreneurship

Hamilton, Barton H. - 2018

entrepreneurship. Previous work has recognized that workers may opt for self-employment due to the non-pecuniary benefits of running a … reveals that the personality traits that make entrepreneurship profitable are not always the same traits driving people to … open a business. This has important consequences for entrepreneurship policies. For example, subsidies for small businesses …

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How is COVID Changing the Geography of Entrepreneurship? Evidence from the Startup Cartography Project

Fazio, Catherine E.; Guzman, Jorge; Liu, Yupeng; Stern, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

changing nature and geography of entrepreneurship in the wake of the COVID pandemic. Consistent with other data sources …

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Housing Collateral, Credit Constraints and Entrepreneurship - Evidence from a Mortgage Reform

Jensen, Thais Lærkholm - 2014

We study how a mortgage reform that exogenously increased access to credit had an impact on entrepreneurship, using … point increase in entrepreneurship, equivalent to a 4% increase in the number of entrepreneurs. New entrants were more … benefit from the reform. Our results provide evidence that credit constraints do affect entrepreneurship, but that the overall …

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Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose : Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development

Karlan, Dean - 2012

Many basic economic theories with perfectly functioning markets do not predict the existence of the vast number of microenterprises readily observed across the world. We put forward a model that illuminates why financial and managerial capital constraints may impede experimentation, and thus...

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Taxing Top Wealth : Migration Responses and their Aggregate Economic Implications

Jakobsen, Katrine; Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Kolsrud, Jonas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using administrative data on wealth, firm ownership structure, and migration in Sweden and Denmark, we document international migration patterns among the very wealthy, their impact on the economy, and how they respond to wealth taxation. We show that more than 20% of taxpayers liable to pay...

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The Impact of Consumer Credit Access on Employment, Earnings and Entrepreneurship

Herkenhoff, Kyle - 2016

How does consumer credit access impact job flows, earnings, and entrepreneurship? To answer this question, we build a … results suggest that consumer credit access matters for each stage of entrepreneurship and that credit-checks may be limiting …

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