One frequently cited yet understudied channel through which money matters for college students is course availability- colleges may respond to budgetary pressure by reducing course offerings. Open admissions policies, binding class size constraints, and heavy reliance on state funding may make...

A proposed explanation for why business creation is often found to increase in recessions is that there are two components to entrepreneurship - "opportunity" and "necessity" - the latter of which is mostly counter-cyclical. Although there is some agreement on the conceptual distinction between...

The rate of assimilation of Latino - and particularly Mexican-America - migrants to the United States has recently become the subject of popular discussion. The discussion has generated a growing interest among academics in examining the assimilation of Latino migrants to the United States, and...

A comprehensive analysis of racial disparities and the determinants of entrepreneurial performance--in particular, why Asian-owned businesses on average perform relatively well and why black-owned businesses typically do not.

Based on data from the 2005 Current Population Surveys (CPS), the state report of the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity offers insight into variation in entrepreneurial activity by state. Like the national report of the Kauffman Index, the state report measures the proportion of...

The rate of entrepreneurial activity among women dropped sharply in 2007 while the activity rate among men and immigrants surged, according to a national assessment of entrepreneurial activity by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. According to the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity,...

To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and internet penetration, we examine a panel of 161 countries over the 1999 2001 period. Our candidate variables include economic variables (income per capita, years of schooling, illiteracy, trade openness),...

We explore whether COVID-19 disproportionately affected women in the labor market using CPS data through the end of 2020. We find that male-female gaps in the employment-to-population ratio and hours worked for women with school-age children have widened but not for those with younger children....