One of the leading theories of entrepreneurship is that less risk averse individuals become entrepreneurs and more risk …

We investigate entry in a dynastic entrepreneurship (overlapping generations) environment created by employee spinoffs …

shape equilibrium entrepreneurship in an occupational choice model. Differential social insurance of entrepreneurial and … labor risk is found to be statistically significant and detrimental to entrepreneurship. The crowding-out effect of public … production of private goods on entrepreneurship dominates the crowding-in effect of public production of public goods in the OECD …

to entrepreneurship, and output. The calibration shows that optimism can explain the empirical puzzle of the low mean … returns to entrepreneurship compared to average wages. …

be explained by perceived gender discrimination. Thanks to unique individual level data, we track women's willingness and …, preventing women from actually moving abroad. …

the separate effects of equal opportunities for women in the labor market and improved contraception on female education …

How do electoral rules affect the representation of women? We collect panel data on the universe of Italian politicians … electoral rules favour the election of women. We propose a new channel through which this result is obtained, related to the … different nature of political competition in the two electoral systems: under proportional rules, parties place women less …