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Entrepreneurship Training, Risk Aversion and Other Personality Traits: Evidence from a Random Experiment

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014

A growing literature examines the relationship between personality traits and entrepreneurship, but no previous studies explore whether personality or psychological traits predispose individuals to benefit more from entrepreneurship training. To address selection issues, we use novel data from...

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The Green Bean Coffee House: An exploration of the specialty coffee Industry and sustainable business practices

Hunt, Evan - 2009

, as well as enables the buyer and producer, as business partners, to set the price and production standards.The coffee … house itself is the perfect medium for exploring the principles and benefits of sustainable business. Not only because of … information gather from primary and secondary sources I have formulated a fully developed “sustainable” business model that goes …

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Family-Owned Businesses: Determinants of Business Success and Profitability

Wallace, Jeffrey S. - 2010

The purpose of this study was to examine many factors associated with family-owned businesses that lead to business … success and profitability. The panel data used in this study came from the 1997 and 2000 waves of the National Family Business … Study (NFBS). Many independent variables from the 1997 wave (e.g., age, gender, managerial activities, business size, home …

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Is There "White Flight" into Private Schools? Evidence from the National Educational Longitudinal Survey

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2015

Using a recently released confidential dataset from the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), we find some evidence of "white flight" from public schools into private schools partly in response to minority schoolchildren. We also examine whether "white flight" is from all minorities...

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First-Run Smoking Presentations in U.S. Movies 1999-2006

Polansky, Jonathan R.; Glantz, Stanton PhD - Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, UC … - 2007

Smoking among American adults fell by half between 1950 and 2002, yet smoking on U.S. movie screens reached historic heights in 2002, topping levels observed a half century earlier. Tobacco's comeback in movies has serious public health implications, because smoking on screen stimulates...

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The Absence of the African-American Owned Business: An Analysis of the Dynamics of Self-Employment

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014

Estimates from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) indicate that African-American men are one-third as likely to be self-employed as white men.Â The large discrepancy is due to a black transition rate into self-employment that is approximately one half the white rate and a black...

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