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. …

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 …

entrepreneurs, the average entrepreneurial skill of women who become entrepreneurs or enter paid employment as managers is higher …We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of the links between the gender of an entrepreneur, access to finance …, occupational choice, and business performance. Our theoretical model predicts that, when lenders discriminate against women …

This paper investigates how direct election regimes (à la presidential democracy) affect the selection of women into …

Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using Census … Kingdom and Canada -- we examine the performance of Indian entrepreneurs and explanations for their success. We find that … business income of Indian entrepreneurs in the United States is substantially higher than the national average and is higher …

the effects of board gender quotas on women directors. First, we find a positive impact of employee representation before … on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board–director matched panel data for Norway and Germany …, when a Norwegian board gender quota came into effect. We present two novel results that challenge previous thinking about …

In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of … more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm … performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and sustained effects of entrepreneurs at all levels of the performance …