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Why less? The Gendered Aspects of Small- and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) Ownership under Economic Transition
Aidis, Ruta - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
This paper explores the gendered influence on SME development under economic transition in Lithuania. Previous studies have shown that male and female business owners are more different than similar in terms of personal and business characteristics (Brush 1992). An analysis of 332 SME owners in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256418
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Risk, Uncertainty and Entrepreneurship: Evidence From a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment
Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255528
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Insurance, Entrepreneurial Start-Up, and Performance
Ejrnæs, Mette; Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255609
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Entrepreneurial Moral Hazard in Income Insurance
Ejrnaes, Mette; Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
We study entrepreneurs’ behavioral responses of effort (moral hazard) to avoid business failure.This is done in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256235
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Entrepreneurship and Role Models
Bosma, Niels; Hessels, Jolanda; Schutjens, Veronique; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256337
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ICT and Substitution between Out-of-home and At-home Work; the Importance of Timing
Graaff, Thomas de; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
This paper investigates the determinants of at home and out-of-home labor supply in the Netherlands in the 199s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257089
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The Effectiveness of Dutch Municipal Recycling Policies
Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Gradus, Raymond - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
The EU advocates a household waste recycling rate of more than 70%. Although the Netherlands already years ago invested … policies are effective in increasing the recycling rates. Based on a large panel data set for the Netherlands , we show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257562
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Seeing the World with Different Eyes
Koellinger, Philipp; Minniti, Maria; Schade, Christian - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255521
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Does Relative Grading help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom
Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
absolute grading, grading on a curve actually narrows the gender gap in performance. …
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Gender Differences, HIV Risk Perception and Condom Use
Lammers, Judith; Wijnbergen, Sweder van; Willebrands, Daan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in <A HREF="http://www.dovepress.com/condom-use-risk-perception-and-hiv-knowledge-a-comparison-across-sexes-peer-reviewed-article-HIV">'HIV/AIDS - Research and Palliative Care'</A>, 2013, 5, 283-293.<P> We analyze how HIV-knowledge influences condom use across the sexes. The empirical work is based on a household survey conducted among 1,979 households of a representative group of...</p></a>
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