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Does the Marginal Entrepreneur Matter?

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  • Ankur Chavda

    (HEC Paris - Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales)

Abstract

I study the effect of improved access to health insurance on the rate new business formation and the quality of those newly created businesses. I develop theoretical models which provide predictions on how improved access to health insurance would heterogeneously affect firms by non-profit status and capital requirements. Using the 2006 reform of the Massachusetts health insurance market, I test those predications and find non-profit entrepreneurship was significantly affected although overall entrepreneurship seems constrained by factors other than access to health care such as access to capital. I also provide evidence that the quality of non-profits created by the shock where poor. These results suggest that even when policy changes are able to induce more entrepreneurship, the marginal quality of those entrepreneurs may be poor.

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  • Ankur Chavda, 2020. "Does the Marginal Entrepreneur Matter?," Working Papers hal-02896655, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-02896655
    DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2671434
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