... professions, yet 6 states have them for 30 or more professions. Finally, the average continuing education requirement is just over 26 h every two years. Rent seeking Regulatory policy Sub-national government Law and economics Occupational licensing Occupational licensing laws are one...

...-specific component μ_i and an idiosyncratic shock v_it, and the β_i terms are estimable parameters. Entrepreneurs Tax policy Firm performance Sub-national government Fiscal policy Government spending H2 H7...

... of a county matching technique to help control for confounding variables, allowing for differences in state policies to be better accounted for. Freedom Firm performance Sub-national government Entrepreneurship is often defined as the creation of a new organization (Gartner, 1988). In the USA...

... opportunity Freedom Sub-national government Table V examines the relationship between economic freedom and net business entry rates (or business entry rate minus business exit rate). Model 1 shows that the overall economic freedom measure does have a positive and statistically significant...

... form: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 United States of America State Economic growth Entrepreneurialism Entrepreneurial action Growth Local policy Sub‐national government Sub‐national policy Entrepreneurship Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity Economic freedom...