Using state-level data from India over the period 1983 to 2005, this paper gauges the effect of financial deepening and …. This suggests that financial deepening contributed to poverty alleviation in rural areas by fostering entrepreneurship and …

for people to become an entrepreneur. Based on a large-scale data set of nearly ninety thousand workers in India, this …, are found to be conducive to entrepreneurship, while others, such as Hinduism, inhibit entrepreneurship. In addition, the … tradition of the caste system influence entrepreneurship, suggesting a link between religion and economic behaviour. …

credit markets. Due to the financial imperfections, high-productivity firms - which are run by entrepreneurs - must be …

In the course of ordinary business, commercial banks frequently encounter entrepreneurs seeking loans for the purpose … of financing new or continuing projects. These entrepreneurs are frequently unrealistic, their perception having been … relationship between banks and possible optimistic entrepreneurs. We examine this capital market from the stand-point of economic …

to the taxation of entrepreneurs in transition economies. …

1980 Women in Employment Survey) finds significant sample selection bias for women in full-time jobs. Part of the observed … differential between the hourly pay of full-timers and part-timers arises because of self-selection of women who can command higher … remunerated at a lower rate in part-time than in full-time employment. Thus, the larger proportion of women than men in part …

The provision of subsidized child care may encourage women to participate in the paid labor force. This paper analyzes … the provision of high quality public day care in Sweden encourages the labor market activity of women with preschoolers …

This paper presents a wage series for unskilled English women workers from 1260 to 1850 and compares it with existing … evidence for men. Our series cast light on long run trends in women’s agency and wellbeing, revealing an intractable, indeed … widening gap between women and men’s remuneration in the centuries following the Black Death. This informs several recent …

I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men … women dissatisfied with pay and promotion opportunities. I find that family-related constraints and dissatisfaction with … other fields once women's relatively high exit rates from male fields generally are taken into account. …