Does Protestantism favour the market economy more than Catholicism does? We provide a novel quasi-experimental way to … the geographical distribution of confessions across Swiss cantons, we find that Protestantism is associated with a … significantly higher propensity for entrepreneurship. The estimated difference ranges between 2.3 and 4.4 percentage points. Our …

cultural background has a significant effect on the individual propensity to become an entrepreneur, with Protestantism … religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on … the propensity to be an entrepreneur, on the basis of the diverse minority status of both confessions across European …

performance and post-dissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find … inequality in the household. We find no evidence of non-pecuniary benefits or costs of co-entrepreneurship. …

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences … US labor force participants. We show that education affects peoples' decisions to become an entrepreneur negatively. We … show furthermore that entrepreneurs have higher returns to education than employees (in terms of the comparable performance …

that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What … group’? A fourth type of contribution studied is the role of entrepreneurship in increasing individuals’ utility levels …

gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a … time within the household in the gender performance gap, by estimating their effect on the technical inefficiency of female …

We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three … and non-monetary wellbeing to entrepreneurial allocation. Using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor we establish … that opportunity entrepreneurship may contribute towards national wellbeing and that better wellbeing in turn may stimulate …

entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights … from the intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical evidence on the relationship between … entrepreneurship and development; and (iii) fresh insights for entrepreneurship policy for development that emerges from recent …