Analyzing Occupational Licensing Across Nations

The authors are grateful for excellent research assistance from Ethan Ellis. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Archbridge Institute, whose support made the collection of the new cross-national occupational licensing surveys possible. We are especially grateful to Maria Koumenta and Queen Mary University of London for generously providing the underlying European occupational licensing dataset used in Koumenta and Pagliero (2019), and to Masayuki Morikawa for providing the underlying Japanese occupational licensing data used in Morikawa (2018). We are also grateful for helpful comments from John Barrios, Peter Blair, John Cochrane, Simon Jager, Maria Koumenta, Melanie Morten, Evan Soltas, Christiana Vitale, and participants at the Hoover Institution Conference on Occupational Licensing and Public Policy. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.