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House Money and Entrepreneurship. William R. Kerr, Ramana Nanda. September 24, 2014, Paper. "We examine the relationship between house prices and entrepreneurship using microdata from the US Census Bureau. Increases in house prices are often thought to drive entrepreneurship through unlocking the collateral channel for bank loans, but this interpretation is challenged by worries regarding omitted variable biases (e.g., rising local demand) or wealth effects (i.e., that wealthier people are more likely to enter entrepreneurship for reasons other than access to collateral)..." Link