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 … time within the household in the gender performance gap, by estimating their effect on the technical inefficiency of female …

access to new financing options change the gender configuration of informal economic activity and, if so, in what ways and … access in promoting entrepreneurship among informal sector firms in India. Our results are robust to alternative …

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

technology and markets, and contextual factors such as legal and regulatory constraints, social norms, access to care, and gender …

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

backward in time to explore the long-run gender origins of entrepreneurship. We argue that present-day propensity for … natural experiment to examine the long-run effect of gender norms on entrepreneurship in present-day Australia. We use a …. Arguments for policies to promote female entrepreneurship are typically couched in terms of gender norms representing a barrier …

. -- Entrepreneurship ; gender difference ; start-up propensity ; decomposition analysis ; KfW Start-up Monitor ; Germany … one third. We scrutinize this gender gap using individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large …, entrepreneurship-related attitudes, and general personality traits of both business starters and non-starters. Estimating binary choice …

This paper contributes to closing a knowledge gap on gender, entrepreneurship and development by linking the …

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. … and associated peer effects. We study how early career entrepreneurship is affected by existing entrepreneurship among …

entrepreneurship as a possible growth driver. This paper contributes to reconciling mixed findings in the literature on the … non-cognitive skills, with gender gaps in entrepreneurial performance in Africa. We have found that while financial …