2019-02-01
Politics and entrepreneurship in the US
Publication
Publication
Canadian Journal of Economics , Volume 52 - Issue 1 p. 33- 57
There is a strong belief that Republicans are more pro-business than Democrats. In this paper, we investigate the causal impact of partisan allegiance of governors (Republican or Democratic) on entrepreneurial activity by exploiting random variation in close gubernatorial elections in 50 states over the last three decades in a regression discontinuity design. We find that Republican governors are no different than Democratic governors in their effects on entrepreneurship. Our findings are robust to several sensitivity checks.
Additional Metadata | |
---|---|
doi.org/10.1111/caje.12365 | |
Canadian Journal of Economics | |
Organisation | Department of Economics |
Beland, L.-P., & Unel, B. (Bulent). (2019). Politics and entrepreneurship in the US. Canadian Journal of Economics, 52(1), 33–57. doi:10.1111/caje.12365
|