Publications
Tareque, Inara, Jorge Guzman, & Dan Wang. High-Skilled Immigration Enhances Regional Entrepreneurship. PNAS.
Media Coverage: Columbia Business School; PNAS
Zhang, Claire, Inara Tareque, & Dan Wang. The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Shaping Trust and Social Networks: Through the Lens of Transactive Memory Systems. Handbook of Trust and Social Networks. Forthcoming in Handbook of Trust and Social Networks.
Job Market Paper
How Social Capital Directs Financial Resources Among Marginalized Individuals.
Winner of Best OMT Social Networks and Organizations Paper Award for the 2026, AOM OMT Division.
Abstract. A central tenet in entrepreneurship research holds that financial and social capital complement one another in promoting entrepreneurial entry. Yet social capital also provides access to wage employment opportunities, which may redirect individuals away from entrepreneurship. I theorize that in contexts where people pursue entrepreneurship out of necessity because of constrained labor market conditions, the complementarity does not hold. Social capital instead plays an occupational expansion role: by widening the set of feasible occupational choices, it lowers the risk of investing in wage work relative to entrepreneurship, thereby encouraging more individuals to invest financial reources into wage employment instead of entrepreneurship. I test this theory using quasi-exogenous variation from U.S. refugee placement policy in a mixed-methods design combining data on 69,406 refugees (1996–2020) with 30 in-depth interviews conducted through a two-year collaboration with the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS). As theorized, results show that access to financial resources increases entrepreneurial entry, but this effect weakens with greater access to social capital. Mechanism tests and interview evidence corroborate the proposed occupational expansion role of social capital: relative to entrepreneurship, refugees perceive wage employment as a more attainable path when they have access to social capital, and so choose to invest financial resources toward wage work rather than starting a business.
Other Working Papers and Select Research In Progress
Tareque, Inara, Dan Wang. When Does Advice Impact Entrepreneurial Performance? The Role of Community Social Capital. Under Review in Organization Science.
Field partner: New York State Small Business Development Center.
Portocarrero, Sandra, Inara Tareque, Dan Wang. Entrepreneurship as an Opportunity to Gain Dignity: Insights into Undocumented Entrepreneurship in California. Preparing manuscript for submission to ASQ.
Field partner: Immigrants Rising
Tareque, Inara. Entrepreneurship through Economic Stability: How Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) Promote Economic Inclusion. Data collection in progress.
Field partner: Tract Advisors
Tareque, Inara. How Bonding and Bridging Social Capital Shape Entrepreneurial Choice and Economic Wellbeing: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Uganda. RCT preparation in progress.
Field partner: Finn Church Aid; Makerere University, Uganda.
8. How Immigration Status Shapes Entrepreneurial Strategy (with Dan Wang, Iliana Perez, and Sandra Portocarrero). First round of analysis complete. Writing in progress.
Field partner: Immigrants Rising
White Papers
Tareque, I. S., Orozco, M., Oyer, P., & Porras, J. I. (2021, May). U.S. Black-Owned Businesses: Pre-Pandemic Trends and Challenges. Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Orozco, M., Tareque, I. S., Oyer, P., & Porras, J. I. (2021, January). 2020 State of Latino Entrepreneurship. Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Orozco, M., Tareque, I. S., Oyer, P., & Porras, J. I. (2020, August). The Ongoing Impact of COVID-19 on Latino-owned Businesses. Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Orozco, M. & Tareque, I. S. (2020, April). The Impact of COVID-19 on Latino-owned Businesses. Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Orozco, M., Tareque, I. S., Oyer, P., & Porras, J. I. (2020, January). 2019 State of Latino Entrepreneurship. Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Morelix, A., Tareque, I. S., Orozco, M., Perez, I. Oyer, P. & Porras, J. I. (2018, July). The U.S. Latino Entrepreneurship Gap: A Comparative Measure of Latino Entrepreneurship Activity. Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Tareque, I. S., Fairlie, R. W. & Morelix, A., (2017, May). Kauffman Index of Startup Activity: State Trends. Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Morelix, A., Fairlie, R. W. & Tareque, I. S., (2017, May). Kauffman Index of Startup Activity: Metropolitan Area and City Trends. Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Fairlie, R. W., Morelix, A., & Tareque, I. S., (2017, May). Kauffman Index of Startup Activity: National Trends. Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Morelix, A., Hwang, V., & Tareque, I. S., (2017, February). Zero Barriers: Three Mega Trends Shaping the Future of Entrepreneurship. Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Stangler, D., Tareque, I. S., & Morelix, A., (2016, December). Trends in Venture Capital, Angel Investments, and Crowdfunding across the Fifty Largest U.S. Metropolitan Areas. Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Tareque, I. S., Morelix, A., Fairlie, R. W., Russell, J., & Reedy, E. J. (2016, November). The Kauffman Index 2016: Main Street Entrepreneurship State Trends. Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Morelix, A., Tareque, I. S., Fairlie, R. W., Russell-Fritch, J., & Reedy, E. J. (2016, November). The Kauffman Index 2016: Main Street Entrepreneurship Metropolitan Area and City Trends. Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Fairlie, R. W., Morelix, A., Tareque, I. S., Russell-Fritch, J., & Reedy, E. J. (2016, November). The Kauffman Index 2016: Main Street Entrepreneurship National Trends. Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Long, Y., Nguyen, T., & Tareque, I. S., (2016). Logistic Regression and Classification Tree on Customer Churn in Telecommunication. First Place Award, National Undergraduate Statistics Class Project Competition. Authors ordered by last name.
Tareque, I. S. (2015, August). BRAC Integrated Development Programme: Maneuvering an Escape from the Poverty Trap. BRAC.