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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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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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Self-Employment, Family Background, and Race

Hout, Michael; Rosen, Harvey S. - 2021

We focus on the intergenerational transmission of the propensity to be self-employed. Our emphasis is on the role of family background, and in particular, on what we call the intergenerational pick-up rate with respect to self-employment, the probability that a person with a self-employed parent...

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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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The Self-Employed are Less Likely to Have Health Insurance than Wage Earners. So What?

Perry, Craig William; Rosen, Harvey S. - 2021

There is considerable public policy concern over the relatively low rates of health insurance coverage among the self-employed in the United States. Presumably, the reason for the concern is that their low rates of insurance lead to worse health outcomes. We use data from the Medical Expenditure...

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Insurance and the Utilization of Medical Services Among the Self-Employed

Perry, Craig William; Rosen, Harvey S. - 2021

There has been substantial public policy concern over the relatively low rates of health insurance coverage among the self-employed in the United States. We use data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey conducted in 1996 to analyze how the self-employed and wage-earners differ both with...

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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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