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What works in supporting women-led businesses?

Ubfal, Diego - 2024

Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to global challenges. However, they face multiple barriers to growing their businesses. This paper reviews the literature on strategies to support women entrepreneurs in improving their business outcomes. It focuses...

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Markets for reputation : evidence on quality and quantity in academe

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2009

We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by one’s peers and others. The central questions are: 1) Does the quantity of exposures raise reputation independent of their quality? and 2) Assuming that overall quality matters for reputation, does the...

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The economics of replication

Müller-Langer, Frank; Fecher, Benedikt; Harhoff, Dietmar; … - 2017

Replication studies are considered a hallmark of good scientific practice. Yet they are treated among researchers as an ideal to be professed but not practiced. To provide incentives and favorable boundary conditions for replication practice, the main stakeholders need to be aware of what drives...

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Gender gaps in the evaluation of research : evidence from submissions to economics conferences

Hospido, Laura; Sanz, Carlos - 2019

We study gender differences in the evaluation of submissions to economics conferences. Using data from the Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (2015-2017), the Annual Meeting of the Spanish Economic Association (2012-2017), and the Spring Meeting of Young Economists (2017), we...

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Pay and job rank amongst academic economists in the UK : is gender relevant?

Mumford, Karen; Sechel, Cristina - 2019

This article presents and explores a rich new data source to analyse the determinants of pay and job rank amongst academic Economists in the UK. Characteristics associated with individual productivity and workplace features are found to be important determinants of the relative wage and...

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Male gatekeepers gender bias in the publishing process?

Bransch, Felix; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2017

Using data on articles published in the top-five economic journals in the period 1991 to 2010, we explore whether the gender composition of editorial boards is related to the publishing success of female authors and to the quality of articles that get published. Our results show that female...

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The rise of female entrepreneurs : new evidence on gender differences in liquidity constraints

Sauer, Robert M.; Wilson, Tanya - 2015

Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship. …

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Inputs, gender roles or sharing norms? : assessing the gender performance gap among informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar

Nordman, Christophe J.; Vaillant, Julia - 2014

We use a representative sample of informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar to add new evidence on the magnitude of the gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a value added 28 percent lower than their male counterparts....

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The firm size distribution across countries and skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology

Poschke, Markus - 2014

: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small firms fall with per capita income across countries, while average firm …'s potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms consistently benefit more from technological progress than …

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On the origins of entrepreneurship : evidence from sibling correlations

Lindquist, Matthew J.; Sol, Joeri; Praag, Mirjam van; … - 2016

Promoting entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important part of the policy agenda in many countries. The … success of such policies, however, rests in part on the assumption that entrepreneurship outcomes are not fully determined at … background and neighborhood effects as determinants of entrepreneurship, by estimating sibling correlations in entrepreneurship …

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