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Skill-specific rather then General Education : A Reason for US-Europe Growth Differences?

Krueger, Dirk - 2003

either a concept-based, general' education or a skill-specific, vocational' education. General education is more costly to … policies favor vocational education will grow slower in equilibrium than one that favors general education. Moreover, the gap … education subsidy policy we demonstrate that the optimal subsidy for general education increases with the growth rate of …

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Do Cash Windfalls Affect Wages? Evidence from R&D Grants to Small Firms

Howell, Sabrina T. - 2020

This paper examines how employee earnings at small firms respond to a cash flow shock in the form of a government R&D grant. We use ranking data on applicant firms, which we link to IRS W2 earnings and other U.S. Census Bureau datasets. In a regression discontinuity design, we find that the...

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The Targeting and Impact of Paycheck Protection Program Loans to Small Businesses

Bartik, Alexander W. - 2020

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) aimed to quickly deliver hundreds of billions of dollars of loans to small businesses, with the loans administered via private banks. In this paper, we use firm-level data to document the demand and supply of PPP funds. Using an instrumental variables...

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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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Minority Self-Employment in the United States and the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs

Blanchflower, David G. - 2008

n this paper I examine changes in self-employment that have occurred since the early 1980s in the United States. It is a companion paper to a recent equivalent paper that related to the UK. Data on random samples of approximately twenty million US workers are examined taken from the Basic...

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Wealth, Tastes, and Entrepreneurial Choice

Hurst, Erik G. - 2015

The non-pecuniary benefits of managing a small business are a first order consideration for many nascent entrepreneurs, yet the preference for business ownership is mostly ignored in models of entrepreneurship and occupational choice. In this paper, we study a population with varying...

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The Direct and Indirect Effects of Small Business Administration Lending on Growth : Evidence from U.S. County-Level Data

Young, Andrew T. - 2014

Conventional wisdom suggests that small businesses are innovative engines of Schumpetarian growth. However, as small businesses, they are likely to face credit rationing in financial markets. If true then policies that promote lending to small businesses may yield substantial economy-wide...

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After the Storm : How Emergency Liquidity Helps Small Businesses Following Natural Disasters

Collier, Benjamin L.; Howell, Sabrina T.; Rendell, Lea - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Does emergency credit prevent long-term financial distress? We study the causal effects of government-provided recovery loans to small businesses following natural disasters. The rapid financial injection might enable viable firms to survive and grow or might hobble precarious firms with more...

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The Feasibility of Using Bayh-Dole March-In Rights to Lower Drug Prices : An Update

Ouellette, Lisa Larrimore; Sampat, Bhaven N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

In December 2023, the Biden-Harris Administration released a proposed framework for exercising government "march-in" rights on high-priced taxpayer-funded drugs. While both proponents and critics of the new rules view them as having broad scope, march-in rights can be exercised only on patents...

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Policy Uncertainty Reduces Green Investment

Wang, Mengyu; Wurgler, Jeffrey; Zhang, Hong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Government subsidies are often used to stimulate environment-friendly investment. We find that Chinese firms reduce green investment as the uncertainty of subsidies rises. This effect is identified from weather-driven fluctuations in air pollution that lead to fluctuations in subsidy...

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