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Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021

. We cover the institution’s history, implementation, and the best available evidence on its economic impacts. We argue …

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Years of Life Lost to Revolution and War in Iran

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2021

This study examines the causal joint effect of a new political regime and war against Iraq on life expectancy of Iranians for the period 1978–1988 during the revolution and war. I use a synthetic control approach to construct a synthetic Iran based on a weighted average of other Middle East...

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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas

Maloney, William F. - 2017

This paper offers the first evidence on the prevalence of a central actor in modern growth theory?the engineer. Using newly collected sub-national, and international data as well as historical case studies, it then argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of...

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Crossovers : Female Entrepreneurs Who Enter Male Sectors -- Evidence from Ethiopia

Alibhai, Salman - 2017

Occupational sector selection is an important determinant of returns for female entrepreneurs. If sectors that are traditionally male owned could provide an opportunity to earn higher returns, then what factors could encourage women to cross over into these sectors or prevent them from doing so?...

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Women's Entrepreneurship : How to Measure the Gap between New Female and Male Entrepreneurs?

Meunier, Frédéric - 2017

This paper analyzes data on female and male entrepreneurship that were collected by the World Bank Group …'s Entrepreneurship Database. Recognizing the importance of a differentiated approach to entrepreneurship in terms of legal entities, the …. Forty-four of the 143 economies that participated in the Entrepreneurship project provided some sex-disaggregated data for …

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Corruption Beyond the Glass Ceiling : Do Women Entrepreneurs Perceive Corruption Differently?

Goel, Rajeev K. - 2019

Adding to the corruption-gender nexus, this paper contributes across several dimensions: (a) measurement of corruption by studying whether female managers and female owners of firms perceived corruption differently; (b) using survey information at the firm level; and (c) employing a large sample...

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Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017

heightened entrepreneurship is due to channels like greater finance access or heightened inspiration for women entrepreneurs …

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Does Emigration Drain Entrepreneurs?

Anelli, Massimo - 2020

Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...

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Demography and innovative entrepreneurship

Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2007

Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...

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Should continued family firms face lower taxes than other estates?

Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2008

entrepreneurship. Here, we investigate analytically and quantitatively the trade-off between transaction costs saved and creative …

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