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 …

This article discusses cultural barriers to women's participation and success in the labor market in developing … several specific gender-related social norms and how they constrain women's employment. I present examples of policies aimed …

We propose a new method to design a short survey measure of a complex concept such as women's agency. The approach … measure agency for 209 women in Haryana, India, first, through a semi-structured interview and, second, through a large set of …

We propose a new method to design a short survey measure of a complex concept such as women's agency. The approach … measure agency for 209 women in Haryana, India, first, through a semi-structured interview and, second, through a large set of …

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 …

for women facing more restrictive social norms? We offered two days of business counseling to a random sample of customers … of India's largest women's bank. A random subsample was invited to attend with a friend. The intervention had a … were stronger among women from religious or caste groups with social norms that restrict female mobility …