article develops a transparent method to determine the environmental impact of indirect government subsidies and derive policy … transport. The results reveal large environmental effects, which need to be taken seriously by policy makers. The method enables … policy makers to evaluate the environmental impacts of indirect government subsidies. …

Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is … mixed. To better understand the unique behavioral characteristics of entrepreneurs and the causes of these mixed results, we … perform a large ‘lab-in-the-field’ experiment comparing entrepreneurs to managers – a suitable comparison group – and …

-employment choice of wage earners after instrumenting for the UI choice. The instruments we use are based on a series of policy … positive for would-be entrepreneurs, in contrast to correlations in the data or uninstrumented estimates. Using firm data, we … also investigate how the newly insurance-induced entrepreneurs fare relative to their uninsured peers. Results suggest that …

We study entrepreneurs’ behavioral responses of effort (moral hazard) to avoid business failure.This is done in the …

intentions. However, empirical research aimed at establishing the importance of role models for (nascent) entrepreneurs is scarce … completed by a representative sample of 292 entrepreneurs in three major Dutch cities - entrepreneurs who have recently started …

Across countries, women own significantly fewer businesses than do men. We show that this is due, in large part, to the … fact that the propensity to start businesses of women is significantly lower than that of men. The lower propensity of … women, in turn, appears to be highly correlated to women’s lower average levels of optimism and self-confidence, and higher …

of their motivation, do not increase their scores under relative grading. Since women slightly outperform men under … absolute grading, grading on a curve actually narrows the gender gap in performance. …

not explain sexual behavior of married women, suggesting a lack of bargaining power in HIV prevention decisions among … and females including a separate focus for married men and women. Moreover, the large predictive power of high …

We examine how multitasking affects performance and check whether women are indeed better at multitasking. Subjects in … their own schedule also perform significantly worse. Finally, our results do not support the stereotype that women are … better at multitasking. Women suffer as much as men when forced to multitask and are actually less inclined to multitask when …