Showing 1 - 8 of 8
confirmed the importance of start-up capital for sales. Women entrepreneurs have smaller start-up capital and are less likely to …, business training is positively associated with sales performance of men entrepreneurs, but has no effect on women. However …, this does not call for abolishing training programs for women entrepreneurs. Instead their design and targeting should be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309045
genders with higher start-up capital record better sales performance than those with smaller amounts of capital. For women … countries, women entrepreneurs in Swaziland have smaller start-up capital and are less likely to fund it from formal sources … than men. Among women entrepreneurs, those with college education and confident in their skills tend to start their firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011551926
networks and improve well-being. We examine family planning access for women in India, who tend to be socially isolated and for … whom peer support may overcome intrahousehold constraints. Enabling women to jointly visit a clinic with other women not …. Moreover, this intervention was more effective in improving reproductive autonomy of women who faced greater intrahousehold …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013270252
We estimate the impact of female leaders on intimate partner violence experienced by women in districts from which they … women's modern contraceptive use - resulting from improvements in public provision of health services in exposed districts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013273665
This paper examines how traditional marriage market institutions affect households' financial decisions. We study how bride-to-groom marriage payments, i.e., dowries, influence saving behavior in rural India. Exploiting variation in firstborn gender and heterogeneity in dowry amounts across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011845475
literacy training directly benefits men, it does not raise the sales level of women entrepreneurs. Instead, tertiary education … has a direct positive link with the performance of women. Consistent with our theoretical model where different skills are … that women entrepreneurs who are tenacious achieve stronger sales performance. Our results underscore the importance of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138459
Limited access to finance is one of the major barriers for women entrepreneurs in Africa. This paper presents a model … economies would benefit from removing obstacles to women's land tenure and enabling financial institutions to lend against …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162904
the likelihood of women being elected to state legislatures in India. We show that the program increased voter … prioritization of leader competence over gender, boosting the share of women among candidates and state parliamentarians and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014438009