In the World Bank Enterprise Survey, the share of entrepreneurs who are women first rises and then falls with national …. This paper presents a model of entrepreneurship in which women face disadvantages, including discrimination from workers … mean that women are less likely to start more complex organizations. In the model, women face the most level playing field …

article considers one friction that currently affects a small, but important, set of entrepreneurs: racial and gender … financing of startups. Female founders manage 16-25% of all startups, while Black entrepreneurs rarely exceed 3% of the startup … underrepresented founders. The article ends with an extensive set of research ideas motivated by the gaps in the entrepreneurship …

heightened entrepreneurship is due to channels like greater finance access or heightened inspiration for women entrepreneurs …/informal sector. These new establishments were concentrated in industries where women entrepreneurs have been traditionally active and …We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India …

entrepreneurship and rule of law that predicts that women will only start businesses when they have both formal legal protection and … a comparative advantage at violence and there is little rule-of-law, then unequal bargaining power can lead women to … segregate into low-return industries and avoid entrepreneurship altogether. In this paper, we present a model of female …

We develop a framework for identifying and quantifying barriers to entry and operation faced by female entrepreneurs in … entrepreneurs still face substantial entry and business registration costs (almost twice their male counterparts'). The costs of … expanding a business, conditional on entry, are also substantially higher for women. However, there is one area in which female …

participate, and over 50% of them are entrepreneurs. We then exploit an identification strategy by comparing the entrepreneurial …

We study the impact of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on the quality of entrepreneurship in China. Using long series of … improved the quality of entrepreneur- ship. Compared with entrepreneurs in other time periods, firms founded by the reluctant … entrepreneurs induced by the SOE layoffs have better performances. To explain these results, we present a simple model of …

entrepreneurship. Previous work has recognized that workers may opt for self-employment due to the non-pecuniary benefits of running a … reveals that the personality traits that make entrepreneurship profitable are not always the same traits driving people to … open a business. This has important consequences for entrepreneurship policies. For example, subsidies for small businesses …

on entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts--and the data confirm--that entrepreneurs are positively selected on …We study the effects of ability and liquidity constraints on entrepreneurship. We develop a three sector Roy model that … differentiates between entrepreneurs and other self-employed to address puzzling gaps that have emerged between theory and evidence …