Entrepreneurs at Home
Closed. This professor is continuing with Spring 2024 apprentices on this project; no new apprentices needed for Fall 2024.
This project continues prior work investigating how local governments interact with home-based businesses in essential industries such as food production and childcare. Home businesses play a growing role in providing essential goods and services, as well as labor opportunities to workers with restrictions, including women with young children and low income minorities. This sector of the economy is under-studied, with little academic research on how the law enables or restricts access to this form of employment. This sub-project will focus on routine inspections and violations data collected from California agencies. Using statistical methods, we will assess the success or failure of agencies in working with disadvantaged business owners, relative to their relationship with more traditional and highly resourced business owners.
Role: In the past, URAP students have gathered data on food and childcare inspections. That data needs to be cleaned and analyzed. URAPs this semester will work with the resulting data to create summary statistics, run regression, and create tables and graphs for academic publication.
Qualifications: Background in data analysis required, with at least one course practicing data cleaning, running regressions and making tables and figures in Python, R, or Stata.
Hours: to be negotiated
Social Sciences