Previous research on self-employment has focused on employers as insurance-providers or how individuals make job choices under health insurance constraints. We add to the literature by examining whether certain health insurance factors determine the self-employment rate at the state level. One...

In this paper we propose a series of homework problems that extend the international coverage in economics courses. The homeworks require students to decide which former Soviet Bloc countries should join the European Monetary Union. We argue that while there are some class time costs associated...