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. …

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

inducing entrepreneurs to choose less risky projects, whereas R&D support encourages entrepreneurship without affecting the …This paper examines how entrepreneurs and incumbents differ in R&D strategies. We show that entrepreneurs have …. However, entrepreneurs may still select too safe projects from a social point of view, since they do not internalize the …

measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching files from the Current Population Survey (CPS) is used to provide the first …. Estimates indicate that hi-tech entrepreneurship rates were lower in Silicon Valley than the rest of the United States during … the period from January 1996 to February 2000. Examining the post-boom period, we find that entrepreneurship rates in …

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …

We analyze gender discrimination in entrepreneurship finance. Access to finance is crucial for entrepreneurial success … female entrepreneurs, but no gender bias in the evaluation of entrepreneurial teams. Our results suggest that the observed … ideas and implementation constraints differently for male and female entrepreneurs, both as individual entrepreneurs or in …

One of the leading theories of entrepreneurship is that less risk averse individuals become entrepreneurs and more risk …, retaining agent heterogeneity in risk aversion and the endogenous division of agents into less risk averse entrepreneurs and …

This paper explores the impact of credit market on the entrepreneurs and demand for credit in a credit constrained … due to presence/absence of entrepreneurs, i.e., low price of capital in autarky may reflect lack of demand for credit due … to scarcity of entrepreneurs and not capital abundance and eventually may lead to capital outflow from a capital scarce …