Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk … aversion among women explains a large share of the entrepreneurial gender gap. We also find an education effect contributing to …

Adding to the corruption-gender nexus, this paper contributes across several dimensions: (a) measurement of corruption … ceiling were undermined in nations with severe gender inequality. …

business stealing effect. Commercialization support induces entrepreneurship but may lead to mediocre entrepreneurship by … inducing entrepreneurs to choose less risky projects, whereas R&D support encourages entrepreneurship without affecting the … type of entrepreneurship. We develop a regression framework to test empirical predictions of the model. Within our …

We analyze gender discrimination in entrepreneurship finance. Access to finance is crucial for entrepreneurial success … entrepreneurial teams. In a lab-in-the-field experiment with Ugandan loan officers, we document gender discrimination of individual … female entrepreneurs, but no gender bias in the evaluation of entrepreneurial teams. Our results suggest that the observed …

conducive business regulations amplify the positive impact on firm creation of better education and reduced skill mismatches. To … escape a low-productivity trap, policymakers should thus create a pro-business framework and a wellfunctioning education …

affects the gender gap in senior managerial positions. Merging administrative data from a top-10 U.S. business school with … related to gender-specific advice, (ii) higher ambitions and self-confidence, and (iii) increasing support from male MBA peers …. These findings highlight the role of social connections in reducing the gender gap in senior management positions. …

We analyze the effect of the introduction of gender quotas in candidate lists on the quality of elected politicians. We … consider an Italian law which introduced gender quotas in local elections in 1993, and was abolished in 1995. As not all … a Difference in Differences estimation to analyze the effect of gender quotas on the quality of elected politicians. We …

This paper examines the performance of 358 European diversified equity mutual funds controlling for gender differences …