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 …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of …

This paper empirically examines firm owners' gender difference in labor demand. We estimate the average treatment …

Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to global challenges. However, they … entrepreneurs in improving their business outcomes. It focuses on interventions designed to address four areas of constraints that … technology and markets, and contextual factors such as legal and regulatory constraints, social norms, access to care, and gender …

We study entrepreneurs' start-up financing from banks and local financiers. An informal network, whose membership … cannot be observed by outsiders, conveys the good signals it gets about the hidden types of network entrepreneurs to local … absence of a network. Thus, the formation of the network is inefficient as entrepreneurs incur networking costs for purely …

non-cognitive skills, with gender gaps in entrepreneurial performance in Africa. We have found that while financial … literacy training directly benefits men, it does not raise the sales level of women entrepreneurs. Instead, tertiary education … that women entrepreneurs who are tenacious achieve stronger sales performance. Our results underscore the importance of …

to be associated with attitude to risk. -- entrepreneurship intentions ; attitude to risk ; gender difference …

In virtually all industrialized countries, women are underrepresented in entrepreneurship, and the gender gap exhibits … male and female peer groups explain approximately half of the gender gap in early career entrepreneurship. …

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries …. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner …