| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w18333 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 18333 |
| Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines | |
| Edward L. Glaeser; Sari Pekkala Kerr; William R. Kerr | |
| 发表日期 | 2012-08-23 |
| 出版年 | 2012 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near Pittsburgh led that city to specialization in industries, like steel, with significant scale economies and that those big firms led to a dearth of entrepreneurial human capital across several generations. We test this idea by looking at the spatial location of past mines across the United States: proximity to historical mining deposits is associated with bigger firms and fewer start-ups in the middle of the 20th century. We use mines as an instrument for our entrepreneurship measures and find a persistent link between entrepreneurship and city employment growth; this connection works primarily through lower employment growth of start-ups in cities that are closer to mines. These effects hold in cold and warm regions alike and in industries that are not directly related to mining, such as trade, finance and services. We use quantile instrumental variable regression techniques and identify mostly homogeneous effects throughout the conditional city growth distribution. |
| 主题 | Industrial Organization ; Market Structure and Firm Performance ; Firm Behavior ; Industry Studies ; History ; Other History ; Development and Growth ; Development ; Growth and Productivity ; Regional and Urban Economics ; Regional Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w18333 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/576006 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Edward L. Glaeser,Sari Pekkala Kerr,William R. Kerr. Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines. 2012. |
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