Alicia Robb
Biographic Data
| ID | 1185247 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alicia Robb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alicia |
| FAMILY NAME | Robb |
| SIGNATURE | ROBB A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
New directions in entrepreneurship research with the Kauffman Firm Survey
Testing for racial bias in business credit scores
Analyzing complex survey data: The Kauffman Firm Survey
The Next Wave: Financing Women's Growth-Oriented Firms
The Next Wave codifies how growth-oriented, women-owned business are overcoming their unique challenges as they scale up. Rooted in research, this book offers practical suggestions for entrepreneurs, investors, and policymakers to take these businesses to the next level
Has the Community Reinvestment Act increased loan availability among small businesses operating in minority neighbourhoods
The 1977 Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) established a bold agenda requiring financial institutions in the USA to serve the credit needs of low- and moderate-income areas, including traditionally excluded minority residential areas. Initially opposed by both bankers and the federal regulatory authorities responsible for enforcement, the CRA has been contentious for decades. This study explores CRA impacts by investigating whether small businesse…
The Capital Structure Decisions of New Firms
We study capital structure choices that entrepreneurs make in their firms' initial year of operation, using restricted-access data from the Kauffman Firm Survey. Firms in our data rely heavily on external debt sources, such as bank financing, and less extensively on friends-and-family-based funding sources. Many startups receive debt financed through the personal balance sheets of the entrepreneur, effectively resulting in the entrepreneur holdin…
Small-business viability in America’s urban minority communities
Although minority and immigrant entrepreneurs in the US have chosen to concentrate in low-profit retail and service lines of business clustered geographically in urban minority neighbourhoods, their reasons for doing so are unclear. We investigate their motivations by analysing viability among urban small businesses; specifically, we compare the longevity of firms targeting clients in minority neighbourhoods to those serving clients in nonminorit…
Financial Capital among Minority-Owned Businesses
This article examines the financing patterns of minority-owned businesses. It first reviews findings from the previous literature on financing constraints and related constraints faced by minority firms. Next it conducts an extensive empirical analysis of the barriers to financing faced by minority-owned firms using data from three sources: the Survey of Business Owners (SBO), the Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS), and the Survey of Small Business Finan…
Gender differences in firm performance: Evidence from new ventures in the United States
A comparison of new firm financing by gender: Evidence from the Kauffman Firm Survey data
This study uses data from the new Kauffman Firm Survey to explore gender differences in the use of start-up capital and subsequent financial injections by new firms. We find that, consistent with previous studies, women start their businesses with significantly lower levels of financial capital than men. A new finding from this research is that women go on to raise significantly lower amounts of incremental debt and equity in years two and three.…
Gender differences in business performance: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners survey
Using confidential microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we investigate the performance of female-owned businesses making comparisons to male-owned businesses. Using regression estimates and a decomposition technique, we explore the role that human capital, especially through prior work experience, and financial capital play in contributing to why female-owned businesses have lower survival rates, profits, employment and sales. We find that fema…
Race and Entrepreneurial Success: Black-, Asian-, and White-Owned Businesses in the United States
A comprehensive analysis of racial disparities and the determinants of entrepreneurial performance—in particular, why Asian-owned businesses on average perform relatively well and why black-owned businesses typically do not. Thirteen million people in the United States—roughly one in ten workers—own a business. And yet rates of business ownership among African Americans are much lower and have been so throughout the twentieth century. In addition…
Determinants of business success: An examination of Asian-owned businesses in the USA
Why Are Black‐Owned Businesses Less Successful than White‐Owned Businesses? The Role of Families, Inheritances, and Business Human Capital
Using confidential microdata from the Characteristics of Business Owners survey, we examine why African American–owned businesses lag substantially behind white‐owned businesses in sales, profits, employment, and survival. Black business owners are much less likely than white owners to have had a self‐employed family member owner prior to starting their business and less likely to have worked in that family member’s business. Using a nonlinear de…
Access to Financial Capital among U.S. Businesses: The Case of African American Firms
Using data from multiple sources, including the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey, the authors trace out the relationship between wealth and access to financial capital and the African American—owned business. African Americans are found to have levels of wealth that are one-eleventh those of whites. Starting with this disparity, blacks are much less likely to start businesses than are whites, which results in a substantially lower rate o…
Families, Human Capital, and Small Business: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey
Recent research has concluded that the children of business owners are substantially more likely than others to become self-employed themselves. The authors of this study find that more than half of business owners in the confidential, restricted-access 1992 Characteristics of Business Owners Survey had a self-employed family member before starting their business. Of the group with a self-employed family member, fewer than half had worked in that…
Access to Financial Capital among U.S. Businesses: The Case of African American Firms
Using data from multiple sources, including the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey, the authors trace out the relationship between wealth and access to financial capital and the African American—owned business. African Americans are found to have levels of wealth that are one-eleventh those of whites. Starting with this disparity, blacks are much less likely to start businesses than are whites, which results in a substantially lower rate o…
Determinants of business success: An examination of Asian-owned businesses in the USA
Small-business viability in America’s urban minority communities
Although minority and immigrant entrepreneurs in the US have chosen to concentrate in low-profit retail and service lines of business clustered geographically in urban minority neighbourhoods, their reasons for doing so are unclear. We investigate their motivations by analysing viability among urban small businesses; specifically, we compare the longevity of firms targeting clients in minority neighbourhoods to those serving clients in nonminorit…
Families, Human Capital, and Small Business: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey
Recent research has concluded that the children of business owners are substantially more likely than others to become self-employed themselves. The authors of this study find that more than half of business owners in the confidential, restricted-access 1992 Characteristics of Business Owners Survey had a self-employed family member before starting their business. Of the group with a self-employed family member, fewer than half had worked in that…
Has the Community Reinvestment Act increased loan availability among small businesses operating in minority neighbourhoods
The 1977 Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) established a bold agenda requiring financial institutions in the USA to serve the credit needs of low- and moderate-income areas, including traditionally excluded minority residential areas. Initially opposed by both bankers and the federal regulatory authorities responsible for enforcement, the CRA has been contentious for decades. This study explores CRA impacts by investigating whether small businesse…
The Next Wave: Financing Women's Growth-Oriented Firms
The Next Wave codifies how growth-oriented, women-owned business are overcoming their unique challenges as they scale up. Rooted in research, this book offers practical suggestions for entrepreneurs, investors, and policymakers to take these businesses to the next level
Why Are Black‐Owned Businesses Less Successful than White‐Owned Businesses? The Role of Families, Inheritances, and Business Human Capital
Using confidential microdata from the Characteristics of Business Owners survey, we examine why African American–owned businesses lag substantially behind white‐owned businesses in sales, profits, employment, and survival. Black business owners are much less likely than white owners to have had a self‐employed family member owner prior to starting their business and less likely to have worked in that family member’s business. Using a nonlinear de…
Access to Financial Capital among U.S. Businesses: The Case of African American Firms
Using data from multiple sources, including the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey, the authors trace out the relationship between wealth and access to financial capital and the African American—owned business. African Americans are found to have levels of wealth that are one-eleventh those of whites. Starting with this disparity, blacks are much less likely to start businesses than are whites, which results in a substantially lower rate o…
Families, Human Capital, and Small Business: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey
Recent research has concluded that the children of business owners are substantially more likely than others to become self-employed themselves. The authors of this study find that more than half of business owners in the confidential, restricted-access 1992 Characteristics of Business Owners Survey had a self-employed family member before starting their business. Of the group with a self-employed family member, fewer than half had worked in that…
Race and Entrepreneurial Success: Black-, Asian-, and White-Owned Businesses in the United States
A comprehensive analysis of racial disparities and the determinants of entrepreneurial performance—in particular, why Asian-owned businesses on average perform relatively well and why black-owned businesses typically do not. Thirteen million people in the United States—roughly one in ten workers—own a business. And yet rates of business ownership among African Americans are much lower and have been so throughout the twentieth century. In addition…
Determinants of business success: An examination of Asian-owned businesses in the USA
A comparison of new firm financing by gender: Evidence from the Kauffman Firm Survey data
This study uses data from the new Kauffman Firm Survey to explore gender differences in the use of start-up capital and subsequent financial injections by new firms. We find that, consistent with previous studies, women start their businesses with significantly lower levels of financial capital than men. A new finding from this research is that women go on to raise significantly lower amounts of incremental debt and equity in years two and three.…
Gender differences in business performance: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners survey
Using confidential microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we investigate the performance of female-owned businesses making comparisons to male-owned businesses. Using regression estimates and a decomposition technique, we explore the role that human capital, especially through prior work experience, and financial capital play in contributing to why female-owned businesses have lower survival rates, profits, employment and sales. We find that fema…
Financial Capital among Minority-Owned Businesses
This article examines the financing patterns of minority-owned businesses. It first reviews findings from the previous literature on financing constraints and related constraints faced by minority firms. Next it conducts an extensive empirical analysis of the barriers to financing faced by minority-owned firms using data from three sources: the Survey of Business Owners (SBO), the Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS), and the Survey of Small Business Finan…
Gender differences in firm performance: Evidence from new ventures in the United States
The Capital Structure Decisions of New Firms
We study capital structure choices that entrepreneurs make in their firms' initial year of operation, using restricted-access data from the Kauffman Firm Survey. Firms in our data rely heavily on external debt sources, such as bank financing, and less extensively on friends-and-family-based funding sources. Many startups receive debt financed through the personal balance sheets of the entrepreneur, effectively resulting in the entrepreneur holdin…
Small-business viability in America’s urban minority communities
Although minority and immigrant entrepreneurs in the US have chosen to concentrate in low-profit retail and service lines of business clustered geographically in urban minority neighbourhoods, their reasons for doing so are unclear. We investigate their motivations by analysing viability among urban small businesses; specifically, we compare the longevity of firms targeting clients in minority neighbourhoods to those serving clients in nonminorit…
Has the Community Reinvestment Act increased loan availability among small businesses operating in minority neighbourhoods
The 1977 Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) established a bold agenda requiring financial institutions in the USA to serve the credit needs of low- and moderate-income areas, including traditionally excluded minority residential areas. Initially opposed by both bankers and the federal regulatory authorities responsible for enforcement, the CRA has been contentious for decades. This study explores CRA impacts by investigating whether small businesse…
The Next Wave: Financing Women's Growth-Oriented Firms
The Next Wave codifies how growth-oriented, women-owned business are overcoming their unique challenges as they scale up. Rooted in research, this book offers practical suggestions for entrepreneurs, investors, and policymakers to take these businesses to the next level
New directions in entrepreneurship research with the Kauffman Firm Survey
Testing for racial bias in business credit scores
Analyzing complex survey data: The Kauffman Firm Survey
Business (14 works) · Economics (12 works) · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (10 works) · Family Business Performance and Succession (7 works) · Finance (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (6 works) · Confidentiality (5 works)