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Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose : Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development
Karlan, Dean - 2012
catalyze adoption of investments and practices aimed towards enterprise growth. We find that entrepreneurs invest the cash, and …
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Failing Just Fine : Assessing Careers of Venture Capital-backed Entrepreneurs Via a Non-Wage Measure
Amornsiripanitch, Natee; Gompers, Paul A.; Hu, George; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
market outcomes of VC-backed entrepreneurs. Would-be founders experience accelerated career trajectories prior to founding …
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Elite Colleges and Upward Mobility to Top Jobs and Top Incomes
Zimmerman, Seth D. - 2016
This paper asks whether elite colleges help students outside of historically advantaged groups reach top positions in the economy. I combine administrative data on income and leadership teams at publicly traded firms with a regression discontinuity design based on admissions rules at elite...
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Mechanism design meets priority design : redesigning the US Army's branching process
Greenberg, Kyle; Pathak, Parag A.; Sönmez, Tayfun - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Army cadets obtain occupations through a centralized process. Three objectives - increasing retention, aligning talent, and enhancing trust - have guided reforms to this process since 2006. West Point's mechanism for the Class of 2020 exacerbated challenges implementing Army policy aims. We...
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Eclipse of Rent-Sharing : The Effects of Managers' Business Education on Wages and the Labor Share in the US and Denmark
Acemoglu, Daron; He, Alex Xi; Le Maire, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper provides evidence from the US and Denmark that managers with a business degree ("business managers") reduce their employees' wages. Within five years of the appointment of a business manager, wages decline by 6% and the labor share by 5 percentage points in the US, and by 3% and 3...
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Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare
Bloom, Nicholas - 2017
We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to universities offering both medical education and business education have...
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Closing the Productivity Gap with the US : Causes and Consequences of the Productivity Program in Western Europe
Giorcelli, Michela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper studies to what extent the transfer of US managerial technologies to Europe after World War II contributed to closing the gap with US businesses. Between 1952 and 1958, the US government sponsored the Productivity Program, which promoted management training trips for European managers...
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On the Allocation and Impacts of Managerial Training
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Murathanoglu, Emir; Nyshadham, Anant - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the allocation and productivity consequences of training production line supervisors in soft skills via a randomized controlled trial. Consistent with standard practice for training investments within firms, we asked middle managers -- who sit above supervisors in the hierarchy -- to...
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And the Children Shall Lead : Gender Diversity and Performance in Venture Capital
Gompers, Paul A. - 2017
With an overall lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the innovation sector documented in Gompers and Wang (2017), we ask the natural next question: Does increased diversity lead to better firm performances? In this paper, we attempt to answer this question using a unique dataset of the gender...
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The Productivity Advantage of Serial Entrepreneurs
Shaw, Kathryn L. - 2017
Serial entrepreneurs, who open more than one business, are found to have higher sales and higher productivity than … novice entrepreneurs, who open one business. Using panel data on entrepreneurs and their firms from Denmark for 2001 … entrepreneurs that hold a portfolio of overlapping ongoing firms perform the best, as do those that open as limited liability firm …
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