Robert
W. Fairlie - Selected Articles
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Recent Research on Entrepreneurship (go to research projects page)
• Race and Entrepreneurial Success: Black-,
Asian-, and White-Owned Businesses in the
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Mexican-American Entrepreneurship, (with Chris Woodruff) PDF
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High-Technology Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley: Opportunities and
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Why Are Black-Owned Businesses Less Successful than White-Owned Businesses? The
Role of Families, Inheritances, and Business Human Capital (with Alicia Robb). Journal of Labor Economics, 2007, 25(2): 289-323 PDF
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Determinants of Business Success: An Examination of Asian-Owned Businesses in
the
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Families, Human Capital, and Small Business: Evidence from the Characteristics
of Business Owners Survey (with Alicia Robb), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60(2): 225-245 PDF
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Liquidity Constraints, Household Wealth, and Entrepreneurship Revisited (with
Harry Krashinsky) PDF
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Mexican Entrepreneurship: A Comparison of Self-Employment in
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Entrepreneurship among Disadvantaged Groups: An Analysis of the Dynamics of
Self-Employment by Gender, Race and Education," Handbook of
Entrepreneurship, Volume 2, eds. Simon C. Parker, Zoltan
J. Acs, and David R. Audretsch,
Springer 2006. PDF
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Minority Business Set-Asides and Black Self-Employment (with Kenneth Y. Chay). PDF
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Minority Entrepreneurship in The Small Business Economy 2005: A Report to
the President, 2005,
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Entrepreneurship and Earnings among Young Adults from Disadvantaged Families, Small
Business Economics, 2005 PDF
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The Effect of Immigration on Native Self-Employment (with Bruce D. Meyer), Journal
of Labor Economics, 2003. PDF
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Drug Dealing and Legitimate Self-Employment, Journal of Labor Economics,
20(3), 2002. PDF
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Does Business Ownership Provide a Source of Upward Mobility for Blacks and
Hispanics? in Public Policy and the Economics of Entrepreneurship, 2004,
MIT Press, eds Douglas Holtz-Eakin
and Harvey S. Rosen. PDF,
Book
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Trends in Self-Employment among White and Black Men: 1910-1990, (with Bruce D.
Meyer), Journal of Human Resources, Fall 2000. PDF
Recent Research on Technology and Education (go to research projects
page)
• The Effects of Home Computers on Educational
Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Community College Students
(with Rebecca London). DOC
• Are Computers Good for Children: The Effects of Home Computers on
Educational Outcomes (with Daniel Beltran and Kuntal
Das), Economic Inquiry (forthcoming).
PDF
• The Personal Computer and Entrepreneurship, Management
Science, 2006, PDF
• ICT Use in the Developing World: An Analysis of
Differences in Computer and Internet Penetration, (with Menzie Chinn), NBER Working Paper No. PDF
• The Effects of Home Computers on School
Enrollment, Economics of Education Review, 2005 PDF
• Explaining Differences in Access to Home
Computers and the Internet: A Comparison of Latino Groups to Other Ethnic and
Racial Groups," Electronic Commerce
Research, 2007 PDF
• The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide:
A Cross-Country Analysis of Computer and Internet Penetration (with Menzie Chinn),
• Race and the Digital Divide,
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Private Schools and "Latino Flight" from Black Schoolchildren, 2002 Demography.
PDF
• Does Immigration Induce "Native Flight" from Public Schools
into Private Schools? (with Julian R. Betts), Journal of Public Economics,
2003. PDF
• Is There "White Flight" into Private Schools? Evidence from
the National Educational Longitudinal Survey (with Alex M. Resch),
Review of Economics and Statistics,
2002 PDF
Recent Research on Immigrants
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Estimating the Contribution of Immigrant Business Owners to the
Recent Research on Labor
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Last Hired, First Fired? Black-White Unemployment and the Business Cycle,
forthcoming in Demography (with Ken
Couch) PDF
Recent Research in Other Areas
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An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Technique to Logit and Probit Models, Journal of Economic and Social Measurement,
2005 PDF
• Economic Conditions, Parental Job Loss, and Children’s Living
Arrangements" (with Rebecca London), for Economic Challenges, Policy Changes, and Poverty, eds. Rebecca
Blank, Sheldon Danzinger, and Robert Schoeni, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006. PDF
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Who is at Risk of Losing and Gaining Health Insurance (with Rebecca London),
forthcoming in Industrial Relations,
2008. PDF
Earlier Research on All Topics -
Selected Articles
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Recent Trends in Ethnic and Racial Self-Employment, Small Business Economics, 2004. PDF
• Earnings Growth among Young Less-Educated Business Owners, Industrial
Relations, 2004. PDF
• Do Family Caps Reduce Out-of-Wedlock Births? Evidence from
• The Long-Term Costs of Job Displacement among
Young Workers (with Lori G. Kletzer), Industrial
and Labor Relations Review, 2003. PDF
• The Absence of the African-American Owned Business:
An Analysis of the Dynamics of Self-Employment, Journal of Labor Economics,
1999. PDF
• The Emergence, Persistence, and Recent Widening of the Racial
Unemployment Gap, (with William A. Sundstrom), Industrial
and Labor Relations Review, 1999. PDF
• The Effect of Incremental Benefit Levels on
Births to AFDC Recipients, (with Rebecca A. London), Journal of Policy
Analysis and Management, 1997. PDF
• Does Immigration Hurt African-American Self-Employment?, (with Bruce D. Meyer) in Help or Hindrance? The
Economic Implications of Immigration for African- Americans,
eds., Daniel S. Hamermesh and Frank D. Bean,
• The Racial Unemployment Gap in Long-Run Perspective,
(with William A. Sundstrom), American Economic
Review, 1997. PDF
• Explaining Ethnic, Racial, and Immigrant Differences in Private School
Attendance, (with Julian R. Betts), Journal of Urban Economics, 2001.
PDF
• Jobs Lost, Jobs Regained: An Analysis of Black/White Differences in Job
Displacement in the 1980s, (with Lori G. Kletzer), Industrial
Relations, 1998.PDF
• Ethnic and Racial Self-Employment Differences and Possible
Explanations, (with Bruce D. Meyer), Journal of Human Resources, PDF.
• Ethnic and Racial Entrepreneurship: A Study of Historical and
Contemporary Differences,