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. …

By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show … that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women’s happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …. The paradox of women’s declining relative well-being is found across various datasets, measures of subjective well …

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 …