Neighborhood segregation and black entrepreneurship

We examine the causal effect of neighborhood segregation on black entrepreneurship. We address neighborhood sorting by analyzing city averages and omitted variable bias by instrumenting for segregation using historical railroad configurations. We find that segregation has a significant positive effe...

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Main Authors: FESSELMEYER, Eric, SEAH, Kiat Ying
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spelling sg-smu-ink.cis_research_all-10042022-08-18T05:14:57Z Neighborhood segregation and black entrepreneurship FESSELMEYER, Eric SEAH, Kiat Ying We examine the causal effect of neighborhood segregation on black entrepreneurship. We address neighborhood sorting by analyzing city averages and omitted variable bias by instrumenting for segregation using historical railroad configurations. We find that segregation has a significant positive effect: a 10 percentage point increase in the dissimilarity index decreases the racial gap by about 3.3 percentage points. To minimize the effect of cross-city sorting, we use a narrower sample constructed from outcomes of young adults and find a similar effect. Our findings are importantbecause historically, entrepreneurship has been an avenue out of poverty, and entrepreneurship has been promoted as a way to decrease welfare and unemployment. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. 2017-05-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research_all/5 info:doi/10.1016/j.econlet.2017.02.025 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research_all/article/1004/viewcontent/1_s2.0_S0165176517300812_main.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection College of Integrative Studies eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Segregation Inequality Entrepreneurship Self-employment Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations Race and Ethnicity
institution Singapore Management University
building SMU Libraries
continent Asia
country Singapore
Singapore
content_provider SMU Libraries
collection InK@SMU
language English
topic Segregation
Inequality
Entrepreneurship
Self-employment
Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations
Race and Ethnicity
spellingShingle Segregation
Inequality
Entrepreneurship
Self-employment
Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations
Race and Ethnicity
FESSELMEYER, Eric
SEAH, Kiat Ying
Neighborhood segregation and black entrepreneurship
description We examine the causal effect of neighborhood segregation on black entrepreneurship. We address neighborhood sorting by analyzing city averages and omitted variable bias by instrumenting for segregation using historical railroad configurations. We find that segregation has a significant positive effect: a 10 percentage point increase in the dissimilarity index decreases the racial gap by about 3.3 percentage points. To minimize the effect of cross-city sorting, we use a narrower sample constructed from outcomes of young adults and find a similar effect. Our findings are importantbecause historically, entrepreneurship has been an avenue out of poverty, and entrepreneurship has been promoted as a way to decrease welfare and unemployment. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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author FESSELMEYER, Eric
SEAH, Kiat Ying
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SEAH, Kiat Ying
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title Neighborhood segregation and black entrepreneurship
title_short Neighborhood segregation and black entrepreneurship
title_full Neighborhood segregation and black entrepreneurship
title_fullStr Neighborhood segregation and black entrepreneurship
title_full_unstemmed Neighborhood segregation and black entrepreneurship
title_sort neighborhood segregation and black entrepreneurship
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2017
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research_all/5
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research_all/article/1004/viewcontent/1_s2.0_S0165176517300812_main.pdf
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