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Holtz-Eakin, Douglas; Rosen, Harvey S.; Weathers, Robert - 2021

The question of how entrepreneurship relates to income mobility is cogent given the current public debate about the … sources of income inequality and mobility in United States society. We examine how experience with entrepreneurship has … distribution over time, and to see how their mobility (or lack thereof) was affected by involvement with entrepreneurship. Our main …

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Financial Capital, Human Capital, and the Transition to Self-Employment : Evidence from Intergenerational Links

Dunn, Thomas A.; Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 2021

The environment for business creation is central to economic policy, as entrepreneurs are believed to be forces of innovation, employment and economic dynamism. We use data from the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) to investigate the relative importance of financial and human capital...

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Impacts of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Jobs on Youth : 5-Year Experimental Evidence on Factory Job Offers and Cash Grants in Ethiopia

Blattman, Christopher - 2019

We study two interventions for underemployed youth across five Ethiopian sites: a $300 grant to spur self-employment, and a job offer to an industrial firm. Despite significant impacts on occupational choice, income, and health in the first year, after five years we see nearly complete...

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Health Insurance and the Supply of Entrepreneurs

Holtz-Eakin, Doug - 2016

Some commentators have suggested that the absence of portable health insurance impedes people from leaving their jobs to start new firms. We investigate this belief by comparing wage-earners who become self-employed during a given period of time with their counterparts who do not. By examining...

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Income Taxes and Entrepreneurs' Use of Labor

Carroll, Robert; Holtz-Eakin, Douglas; Rider, Mark; … - 2021

This paper investigates the effect of entrepreneurs' personal income tax situations on their use of labor. We analyze the income tax returns of a large number of sole proprietors before and after the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and determine how the substantial reductions in marginal tax rates...

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Occupational Choice in Early Industrializing Societies : Experimental Evidence on the Income and Health Effects of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Work

Blattman, Christopher - 2016

entry-level applicants to one of three treatment arms: an industrial job offer; a control group; or an “entrepreneurship … for better work. Meanwhile, the entrepreneurship program stimulated self-employment, raised earnings by 33%, provided …

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Sticking it Out : Entrepreneurial Survival and Liquidity Constraints

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas; Joulfaian, David; Rosen, Harvey S. - 2021

This paper analyzes the role of liquidity constraints in the formation of new entrepreneurial enterprises. The basic empirical strategy is to determine whether an individual's wealth affects the probability of becoming an entrepreneur, and the conditional amounts of depreciable assets, ceteris...

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Entrepreneurial Decisions and Liquidity Constraints

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas; Joulfaian, David; Rosen, Harvey S. - 2021

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