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    Does Having a Higher Percent of Women-Owned Businesses Correlate with a Decreased Poverty Rate in the United States at the State Level? Evidence from the U.S. Census Bureau and Survey of Business Owners

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    King, Elizabeth M.
    Advisor
    Wei, Thomas
    Abstract
    Despite constituting over half of our population, women own only 28.8% of nonfarm
     
    businesses in the United States (Survey of Business Owners 2007). There may be
     
    benefits to increasing the proportion of women-owned businesses to more accurately
     
    reflect the representation of women in the population. I hypothesize that having a higher
     
    percent of women-owned businesses at the state level reduces state poverty rates. Using
     
    data from the U.S. Census and the Survey of Business Owners as well as other sources
     
    during the years 1992, 1997, 2002 and 2007, I find a negative but statistically
     
    insignificant correlation between the percent of women-owned businesses and the
     
    poverty rate at the state level when controlling for year fixed effects and other covariates.
     
    I additionally find an unexpected and statistically significant positive correlation between
     
    the percent of women-owned businesses and the poverty rate at the state level when
     
    controlling for state fixed effects and other covariates, but these results are limited due to
     
    measurement inconsistencies in the data. These findings are therefore limited and
     
    inconclusive.
     
    Description
    M.P.P.
    Permanent Link
    http://hdl.handle.net/10822/760990
    Date Published
    2015
    Subject
    Business; Gender; Poverty; Women-Owned; Public policy; Public policy;
    Type
    thesis
    Publisher
    Georgetown University
    Extent
    33 leaves
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