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News articles
· 2026-05-22
The Hidden Policy Crisis Behind America's Startup Decline
maintains RegData, a database that quantifies regulatory restrictions in the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations across nearly five decades of industry-specific data. Using it, Dustin Chambers, Patrick McLaughlin, and Tyler Richards, there, found that "regulatory growth disproportionally burdens small businesses relative to large business; a 10 percent growth in regulatory restrictions in an industry
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· 2026-05-12
Misperceiving inequality: the social science of trends, causes, and consequences of economic inequality
Abstract In scholarly outlets and adjacent venues, including policy briefs and reports by influential non-government organizations, it is often claimed that income and wealth inequality have risen sharply and continuously over the past decades. This rise is frequently attributed to macro-social processes such as globalization and market liberalization (often discussed as neoliberalism). It is also…
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· 2026-02-24
Less Red Tape more Green Shoots? Idaho's regulatory reforms and Entrepreneurial Dynamism
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· 2026-02-05
The regulatory cost burden on Atlantic coast shellfish farms
C Clark, J van Senten, CR Engle. North American Journal of …. 2026
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· 2026-01-01
Regulatory Simplification, Formalization, and Local Economic Activity: Evidence from Brazil
Fernando Barros, Victor Rangel. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2026
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· 2025-12-01
Customer environmental pressure, environmental initiatives and innovation as pathways to overcoming operational obstacles: The critical role of gender …
ABD Sghairi, H Sdiri. International Journal of Innovation Studies. 2025
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· 2025-10-11
Institutions Matter: Economic freedom and income mobility
JT Callais, VJ Geloso, AM Plemmons, GA Wagner. Economic Modelling. 2025
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· 2025-09-10
A Practical Measure of Red Tape
ABSTRACT Regulation can influence economic dynamism, the distribution of income, and various measures of economic welfare. Despite a substantial proportion of regulation in the United States originating at the state level, we are not aware of any comprehensive measure of excess regulation or “red tape” at the state level. We fill this notable gap by constructing a novel measure of state‐level red …
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· 2025-09-01
The German Act on Corporate Due Diligence Obligations in supply chains: An empirical assessment of the agri-food supply chain based on experts' …
A Mardenli, KF Sträter, C Herrmann. Cleaner Logistics and …. 2025
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· 2025-08-05
Customer environmental pressure, environmental initiatives and innovation as pathways to overcoming operational obstacles: The critical role of gender diversity
Afef Ben Delhouma Sghairi, Hanen Sdiri. International Journal of Innovation Studies. 2025
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· 2025-08-03
AI safety and regulatory capture
T Metcalf. AI & SOCIETY. 2025
Google Scholar
· 2025-07-01
Factors Affecting Female Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia
A Alsheikah. NA. 2022
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· 2025-06-20
The German Act on Corporate Due Diligence Obligations in supply chains: An empirical assessment of the agri-food supply chain based on experts’ perspectives
Abdulaziz Mardenli, Katharina Friederike Sträter, Christoph Herrmann, Dirk Sackmann. Cleaner Logistics and Supply Chain. 2025
Semantic Scholar
· 2025-03-17
The National Regulatory Cost Burden on US aquaculture farms
C. Engle, Jonathan van Senten, Shraddha Hegde, G. Kumar, Charles Clark, Noah C. Boldt, Gary Fornshell, Bobbi Hudson, E. Cassiano, M. DiMaggio. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society. 2025
Google Scholar
· 2024-12-01
Can improving the business environment narrow the within-firm pay gap? Evidence from data on 233 Chinese cities
Q Wan, H Pan, J Huang. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal. 2024
News articles
· 2024-10-16
Unlocking Opportunity: How Occupational Licensing Reform Would Promote Equitable Empowerment in Illinois
The Illinois Policy Institute report cites the Mercatus Center (McLaughlin's affiliation) on occupational licensing prevalence and references research on licensing's disproportionate impact on minorities and poor people, which aligns with McLaughlin's work on barriers to prosperity and entry regulations (Work 27).
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· 2024-08-02
Exploring the nexus of occupational licensing and the shadow economy: Evidence from US states
DA Gyimah, JW Saunoris. Contemporary Economic Policy. 2025
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· 2024-08-02
Exploring the nexus of occupational licensing and the shadow economy: Evidence from U.S. states
Daniel Gyimah, James W. Saunoris. Contemporary Economic Policy. 2024
Google Scholar
· 2024-05-01
Economic freedom and inequality: A survey of the empirical literature
DL Bennett. Handbook of research on economic freedom. 2024
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· 2024-04-18
State-society relations and the “re-industrialization” of the developed world: power relations, coordination and growth paths
MI Sabry. Fulbright Review of Economics and Policy. 2024
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· 2024-04-01
The regulation and inequality nexus in microfinance and tourism sectors
S Mago, FS Modiba. SAGE Open. 2024
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· 2024-01-01
Can Familial Protectionism Save Families from Too Much Economic Freedom?
A Rathbone Bradley. The Journal of Private Enterprise. 2024
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· 2024-01-01
Poverty spells and economic freedom: Canadian evidence
J Dean, V Geloso. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 2024
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· 2024-01-01
Income Mobility, Austerity and Liberalization: Evidence from Alberta's Reforms in the 1990s
Justin T Callais, Vincent Geloso, Alicia Plemmons. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2024
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· 2023-12-08
Potential economic impact on US aquaculture of injurious species listing of major aquaculture species
CR Engle, J van Senten, QM Tuckett. Journal of the World …. 2024
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· 2023-12-08
Potential economic impact on U.S. aquaculture of injurious species listing of major aquaculture species
Carole R. Engle, Jonathan van Senten, Quenton M. Tuckett, Jeffrey E. Hill. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society. 2023
Google Scholar
· 2023-10-01
Global Dynamics of Gini Coefficients of Education for 146 Countries:: Update to 1950-2015 and a Compact Guide to the Literature
T Ziesemer. Bulletin of Applied Economics. 2022
Semantic Scholar
· 2023-09-01
The causal effect of regulation on income inequality across the U.S. states
Sanchari Choudhury. European Journal of Political Economy. 2023
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· 2023-08-30
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· 2023-06-12
ADA to Ph. D.? The Americans with disabilities act and post-secondary educational attainment
N Reinarts, V Melo. Public Choice. 2023
Public comments
· 2023-04-17
Comment submitted by Allen Lefohn
Source: regs_supercorpus
Docket: EPA-HQ-OAR-2018-0279
Posted: 2023-04-17
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· 2023-02-09
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J Dean, V Geloso. NA
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· 2023-01-01
Business environment and inclusive growth nexus: Evidence from African countries
RR Bétila. Open Journal of Business and Management. 2023
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· 2023-01-01
Populism and inequality: Does reality match the populist rhetoric?
M Strobl, AS de Viteri, M Rode, C Bjørnskov. Journal of Economic Behavior …. 2023
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· 2022-12-01
ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA: A BOON TO INCOME EQUALITY
Folorunsho M. Ajide. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship. 2022
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· 2022-11-30
Barriers to entry, entrepreneurship and income inequality within the USA
Purpose Cross-country studies have shown that higher costs to starting a business tend to reduce entrepreneurship (Chambers and Munemo, 2019) and that an unfavorable environment for business can increase poverty and income inequality (Chambers et al. , 2019a; Djankov et al. , 2018). Building on the current literature, the authors test whether barriers to starting a business at the state and city l…
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· 2022-10-01
Regulation and income inequality in the United States
D Chambers, C O'Reilly. European Journal of Political Economy. 2022
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· 2022-05-13
Political failure: a missing piece in innovation policy analysis
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· 2022-05-09
The influence of psychological capital and social capital on the entrepreneurial performance of the new generation of entrepreneurs
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· 2022-05-05
Credit, Fiscal Policy, and Income Inequality: Empirical Study from Indonesia
TR Maulidi, TC Dawood. International Journal of …. 2022
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· 2022-05-01
Call For Research: Towards the Right-Sizing of Regulations for Business Performance
B Mulligan, N Granados. NA. 2022
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· 2022-01-01
Barriers to Entry, Entrepreneurship, and Income Inequality within the United States
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· 2021-11-29
Economic freedom improves income mobility: evidence from Canadian provinces, 1982–2018
J Dean, V Geloso. Journal of Institutional Economics. 2022
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· 2021-11-15
Free market capitalism and societal inequities: Assessing the effects of economic freedom on income inequality and the equity of access to opportunity, 1990–2017
I De Soysa, KC Vadlamannati. … Political Science Review. 2023
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· 2021-11-01
LA LIBERTÉ ÉCONOMIQUE ENTRAÎNE UNE PLUS GRANDE MOBILITÉ DU REVENU
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· 2021-11-01
Economic Freedom Leads to Greater Income Mobility
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· 2021-10-22
Farm‐level cost drivers of salmonid fish health inspections
C Engle, J van Senten, M Schwarz. Journal of Aquatic …. 2021
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· 2021-09-13
An Introduction to the Effect of Regulation on Employment and Wages
J Bailey. The Center for Growth and Opportunity. 2026
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· 2021-09-01
Reward crowdfunding campaigns: Time-to-success analysis
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Semantic Scholar
· 2021-08-13
The economic theory of regulation and inequality
D. Chambers, Colin O’Reilly. Public Choice. 2021
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· 2021-08-08
El derecho comercial: de la regulación al compliance
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· 2021-05-06
Regulation Intensity's Effects on Business Formation
K Ong, C Savage. NA. 2021
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· 2021-04-18
Larger polities are more regulated
Using a variety of novel data sources from the RegData project, we show that population levels and the amount of regulation are highly correlated across countries and time, and that more-populated US states, Australian states and Canadian provinces tend to be more heavily regulated than less-populated states and provinces. A doubling of population size is associated with a 22 to 33 per cent increa…
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· 2021-01-01
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· 2021-01-01
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· 2020-10-01
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· 2020-04-15
A Fresh Start: How to Address Regulations Suspended During the Coronavirus Crisis
As the COVID-19 crisis intensified, policymakers at the federal, state, and local levels started suspending or rescinding laws and regulations that hindered sen
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· 2020-02-01
Deconstructing the Impact of Entrepreneurship on Income Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa Countries
Jimoh Sina Ogede. Economics and Business. 2020
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· 2020-01-01
Political Failures in Innovation Policy: A Cautionary Note
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· 2019-06-19
Doing Business Research Notes World Bank Malaysia Hub
E Tjong, AD Schmillen. NA
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· 2019-03-01
Les limites d'une mesure de dispersion des revenus comme seule variable explicative des dysfonctionnements sociaux dans le contexte d'une politique publique
A Moreau. NA. 2019
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· 2019-01-01
Экономические факторы нормотворческой активности в России
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· 2019-01-01
Экономические факторы нормотворческой активности в России
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· 2019-01-01
Economic and Political-Economic Factors of Regulatory Activity in Russia: Analysis in the Context of the Rule-Making Initiative Subjects
P Pavlov. NA
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· 2019-01-01
Entry regulations and income inequality at the regional level
D Chambers, C O'Reilly. Journal of Regional Analysis & Policy. 2019
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· 2019-01-01
Income Inequality: How Do Racial and Gender Differences Influence the Incomes in US
Ting Liu, Enhao Yang, Zhiliang Wang. Journal of Human Resource and Sustainability Studies. 2019
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· 2018-09-24
Regulation and poverty: an empirical examination of the relationship between the incidence of federal regulation and the occurrence of poverty across the US states
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· 2018-09-06
RegData 2.2: a panel dataset on US federal regulations
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· 2018-07-02
A process perspective on regulation: Who bears the dispersed costs of regulation?
D. Thomas. The Review of Austrian Economics. 2018
Citing your work
· 2018-05-14
Reducing Global Income Inequality by Empowering Entrepreneurship | The Regulatory Review
ce suggests that targeted regulatory reform can promote social mobility through expanded entrepreneurship, without the need to raise taxes or increase public expenditures. In a new article that I coauthored with Patrick McLaughlin and Laura Stanley , we investigate the relationship between income inequality and the amount of red tape faced by would-be entrepreneurs in 115 countries, as measured by…
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· 2018-02-26
Regressive effects of regulation on wages
JB Bailey, DW Thomas, JR Anderson. Public Choice. 2019
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· 2018-01-01
THE REGRESSIVE EFFECTS OF FEDERAL REGULATION AND A ROADMAP FOR REFORM
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· 2018-01-01
Regulation, Entrepreneurship, and Firm Size
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· 2018-01-01
Regulation and Poverty: An Empirical Examination of the Relationship between the Incidence of Federal Regulation and the Occurrence of Poverty Across the States
Dustin Chambers, Patrick A. McLaughlin, Laura Stanley. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2018
Federal policy documents
· 2016-05-16
Senator Grassley's floor speech cites McLaughlin's research on entry regulations and income inequality, specifically referencing his study linking stringent entry regulations to higher income inequality across 175 countries, which matches Work 27 (Barriers to Prosperity: The Harmful Impact of Entry Regulations on Income Inequality).
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