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 …

Previous research has shown that women in the treatment group of the CeMENT randomized controlled trial increased their …, namely, that CeMENT expanded the collaboration networks of the participants. Our analysis finds that women who received the …

economics. We found that women in economics were 15% less likely to be promoted to associate professor after controlling for …

Women continue to be underrepresented in academic ranks in the economics profession. The Committee on the Status of … Women in the Economics Profession of the American Economics Association established the CeMENT mentoring workshop to support … women in research careers. The program was designed as a randomized controlled trial. This study evaluates differences …

Committee for the Status of Women in the Economics Profession and sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the American … participants, the results suggest that this type of mentoring may be one way to help women advance in the Economics profession and …

Many studies have shown that women are under-represented in tenured ranks in the sciences. We evaluate whether gender … facts using the 1973-2001 Survey of Doctorate Recipients. We find that women are less likely to take tenure track positions … controlling for covariates. However, family characteristics have different impacts on women's and men's promotion probabilities …

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 …