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 …

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 …

flooding that hit Bangladesh from August-September 2014 on women's employment and empowerment. Development economics models … confirm this assumption: women's employment probability increases by approximately 13 percentage points. Correcting for … selection bias due to the initial employment status of women, we also find significant increases in the probability of non …

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 …

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 …

In low- and middle-income countries, differences between men and women in their time use patterns represent a major … paper examines the impact of the 2017 flood in Bangladesh on men's and women's time use patterns and women's empowerment …. Using georeferenced and longitudinal data, we find that the flood decreased women's time spent on domestic work while …

This paper aims to study the relationship between women's land ownership and household food security in Tanzania, using … disentangle the effects of women's land ownership across households with varying levels of dependence on home-produced food. The … findings reveal that women's land ownership significantly influences household dietary diversity. Specifically, women's sole …