Sameeksha Desai

Bottom line: The number of new employer businesses has not recovered to pre-Great Recession levels. This trend is troubling because new businesses have been shown to contribute...

Bottom line: Rising levels of student loan debt depresses entrepreneurship, income, and employment. Student loan debt has serious implications for job creation and American...

Bottom line:  In the 2019 Kauffman Early-Stage Entrepreneurship (KESE) state-level index, which aggregates four entrepreneurship metrics, California ranked as the most...

Bottom line: The KESE Index, which aggregates a series of four entrepreneurship indicators, remained constant in 2019 at 1.2. This score represents more than one standard deviation...

Bottom line: This study examines new entrepreneurs between 1996 and 2019 by race and ethnicity, age, and nativity. Over the past quarter-century, the share of minority and immigrant...

Bottom line: While new business applications have picked back up in Missouri and across the nation following a significant slowdown due to the CovId-19 economic shutdowns,...

Bottom Line: Entrepreneurs in the Heartland – Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Nebraska – perceive challenges differently compared to entrepreneurs nationally. While both...

Bottom Line: The Kauffman New Employer Business Indicators series provides information on new employer businesses, which is a significant indicator of broader entrepreneurial...