The focus on employer-provided health insurance in the United States may restrict businesscreation. We address the limited research on the topic of “entrepreneurship lock” by usingrecent panel data from matched Current Population Surveys. We use difference-indifferencemodels to estimate the...

Only a few large, nationally-representative datasets include information on both the ownerand the business. We briefly describe several of the most respected and up-to-date sourcesof data on entrepreneurs, the self-employed, and small businesses. More informationincluding estimates of recent...