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Robert W. Fairlie is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences and economics, econometrics, and finance, with a focus on various subfields including education, economics and econometrics, management of technology and innovation, sociology and political science, and accounting.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, entrepreneurship studies and influences, higher education research, employment and welfare studies, school choice and performance, labor market dynamics and wage inequality, as well as firm innovation and growth.

Fairlie's recent publications cover the economic and social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as aspects of minority-owned businesses and gender inequality in labor markets. Notable papers include:

  • The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners: Evidence from the first three months after widespread social-distancing restrictions (2020) in Journal of Economics & Management Strategy
  • The early impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on business sales (2021) in Small Business Economics
  • Black and White: Access to Capital Among Minority-Owned Start-ups (2021) in Management Science

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Fairlie include Prashant Loyalka, Kenneth A. Couch, Frank M. Fossen, Huanan Xu, and George Bulman.

The primary publication venues for Fairlie's work include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Small Business Economics
  • Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
  • Journal of Economics & Management Strategy
  • Journal of Public Economics

In addition to articles, Fairlie authored a book titled The Promise and Peril of Entrepreneurship, published by The MIT Press in 2023.

Best Publications

  • An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Technique to Logit and Probit Models

    Robert W. Fairlie

  • The determinants of the global digital divide: a cross-country analysis of computer and internet penetration

    Menzie David Chinn;Robert W Fairlie

  • The Absence of the African‐American Owned Business: An Analysis of the Dynamics of Self‐Employment

    Robert W. Fairlie

  • Gender differences in business performance: evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners survey

    Robert W. Fairlie;Alicia M. Robb

  • Ethnic and Racial Self-Employment Differences and Possible Explanations.

    Robert W. Fairlie;Bruce D. Meyer

  • Why Are Black‐Owned Businesses Less Successful than White‐Owned Businesses? The Role of Families, Inheritances, and Business Human Capital

    Robert W. Fairlie;Alicia M. Robb

  • Families, Human Capital, and Small Business: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey:

    Robert W. Fairlie;Alicia M. Robb

  • Technology and Education: Computers, Software, and the Internet

    George Bulman;Robert W. Fairlie

  • Technology and Education: Computers, Software, and the Internet

    George Bulman;Robert W Fairlie

  • The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners: Evidence from the first 3 months after widespread social-distancing restrictions

    Robert Fairlie

  • The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners: Evidence from the first 3 months after widespread social-distancing restrictions.

    Robert Fairlie

  • Race and Entrepreneurial Success: Black-, Asian-, and White-Owned Businesses in the United States

    Robert W. Fairlie;Alicia M. Robb

  • A Community College Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom

    Robert W. Fairlie;Florian Hoffmann;Philip Oreopoulos

  • Liquidity constraints, household wealth, and entrepreneurship revisited

    Robert W. Fairlie;Harry A. Krashinsky

  • ICT use in the developing world: An analysis of differences in computer and internet penetration

    Menzie D. Chinn;Robert W. Fairlie

  • Entrepreneurship, Economic Conditions, and the Great Recession

    Robert W. Fairlie

  • Immigration and Entrepreneurship

    Robert W. Fairlie;Magnus Lofstrom

  • The Absence of the African-American Owned Business: An Analysis of the Dynamics of Self-Employment

    Robert Fairlie

  • Immigration and Entrepreneurship

    Robert W. Fairlie;Magnus Lofstrom

  • Entrepreneurship training, risk aversion and other personality traits: Evidence from a random experiment

    Robert W. Fairlie;William Holleran

  • Is There "White Flight" into Private Schools? Evidence from the National Educational Longitudinal Survey

    Robert W. Fairlie;Alexandra M. Resch

  • Early Evidence of the Impacts of COVID-19 on Minority Unemployment.

    Kenneth A. Couch;Robert W. Fairlie;Huanan Xu

  • The Long-Term Costs of Job Displacement for Young Adult Workers

    Lori G. Kletzer;Robert W. Fairlie

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce D. Meyer
Bruce D. Meyer University of Chicago
Julian R. Betts
Julian R. Betts University of California, San Diego
David G. Robinson
David G. Robinson Heidelberg University
Philip Oreopoulos
Philip Oreopoulos University of Toronto
Christopher Woodruff
Christopher Woodruff University of Oxford
Scott Rozelle
Scott Rozelle Stanford University
Menzie David Chinn
Menzie David Chinn University of Wisconsin–Madison
Eric Bettinger
Eric Bettinger Stanford University
Javier Miranda
Javier Miranda Halle Institute for Economic Research
Dean Karlan
Dean Karlan Northwestern University

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