The Impact Of Insurance Subsidies On Self-Employment:Do State Non-Group Healt…

This paper tests whether the effect of tax-based subsidies for self-employed health insurance on the level of self-employment differs with the type of non-group insurance regulatory regime at the state level. Using a panel of tax returns from 1999 to 2004, we estimate fixed effects instrumental variable regressions for the probability of being selfemployed, allowing the effect of the after-…