Politics and Entrepreneurship in the U.S

Louis-Philippe Beland and Bulent Unel ()

Departmental Working Papers from Department of Economics, Louisiana State University

Abstract: 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 not different than Democratic governors in either business creation or destruction. Our findings are robust to several sensitivity checks.

Date: 2017-05
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