Entrepreneurship—creating emerging sectors and new businesses to foster economic development—is a vital driver of the global economy. RAND research on U.S. entrepreneurship explores how public policy affects start-up businesses, from the impact of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 to the problems posed by the U.S. employer-based health care system; worldwide, RAND research has focused on international trade and entrepreneurship in developing countries.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
State small-group health insurance reforms, implemented in the 1990s, aimed at controlling the variability of health insurance premiums and to improve access to health insurance. These reforms only affected firms within a specific size range, and as a result, they may have affected the size of small firms around the legislative threshold and may also have affected the propensity of small firms to offer health insurance.
RESEARCH BRIEF
Raises concerns that the bundling of health insurance and employment may discourage business creation.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
This study documents the most important public and private programs designed to promote self-employment and small business creation and critically examines the existing research on the effect of those programs. The authors find that business and self-employment assistance programs are heterogeneous in important dimensions.
REPORT
Participants at this conference presented research on and discussed policy issues affecting the growth of entrepreneurship in India, with special emphasis on education and the effective utilization of infrastructure. This document summarizes the proceedings and includes several of the speakers' presentations.
COMMENTARY
The damage done by the financial crisis now seems to require not a refurbishing job but an extreme makeover. While soul-searching and even self-loathing are inevitable during a crisis, this is no time for America to shy away from a capitalist system that has produced decades of economic growth, writes Krishna Kumar.
NEWS RELEASE
An improved understanding of the effects of regulation on small businesses will help lawmakers develop policy designed to advance entrepreneurship.
REPORT
The regulatory environment affects small business differently from the way it affects large ones, sometimes leading to unintended negative consequences. An improved understanding of this effect will help lawmakers develop policy designed to advance entrepreneurship.
REPORT
In a study examining whether women-owned small businesses are underrepresented among firms contracting with the federal government, RAND found that the results vary depending on the way the measurement is made.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Dans une economie avec contraintes de liquidite, les individus ont plus de difficultes a creer leur entreprise faute d'un financement suffisant de la part des banques.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
This paper focuses on the effect of liquidity constraints and startup costs on the relationship between wealth and fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy. The authors consider a model of heterogeneous agents with occupational choice.
NEWS RELEASE
May 8, 2006 News Release: RAND Study Shows Sarbanes-Oxley Act Had Short-Lived Effect on Small Businesses.
REPORT
Small workplaces that are a business' only location are among the safest places to work. Fatal accidents are most common at small worksites with fewer than 20 workers that are operated by middle-sized businesses.
REPORT
The U.S. government is providing insufficient funding and other resources to understand and manage risks that nanomaterials pose to the health of workers in the rapidly growing nanotechnology industry.
REPORT
L.A.'s port, airport, and Department of Water and Power together contract for more than a billion dollars worth of goods and services annually; these activities could be made more transparent and efficient, thus improving public trust.
COMMENTARY
Published commentary by RAND staff.
REPORT
Describes three nontraditional approaches to the Army's goal of collaborating and partnering with industry.
PEOPLE
Assistant Policy Analyst
Ph.D. candidate, Pardee RAND Graduate School; B.A. in public policy, administration, and analysis, New College of Florida
PEOPLE
Associate Cost Analyst
B.A. in economics, Baylor University; M.P.P, University of Chicago
PEOPLE
Senior Analyst
Ph.D. in innovation policy, University of Liverpool; M.B.A., Durham University Business School; B.A. (Hons) in history, University of Liverpool
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