This paper analyzes the role of networks in access of women entrepreneurs to start-up capital and firm performance in … capital is associated with better sales performance for both men and women entrepreneurs. Women entrepreneurs start their … of their firm and sales level. However, women with higher education start their firms with more capital than their less …

Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … that it is primarily single women that drive the well-established empirical relationship between personal wealth and … business start-ups. Therefore, public policies specifically targeted at relieving the liquidity constraints of women could help …

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 …

By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show … that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …. The paradox of women's declining relative well-being is found across various datasets, measures of subjective well …

job-to-job and higher job-to-nonemployment transition probabilities for women than men when controlling for individual and … considerably lower and also significantly less wage-elastic for women than for men …

reconstruction process had mainly fallen on women in postwar Germany. This paper provides causal evidence on long-term legacies of … postwar reconstruction and mandatory employment on women's labor market outcomes. We combine a unique dataset on city …

Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded? This … and a team-based payment scheme. We find that women are more likely than men to select team-based compensation in our … baseline treatment, but women and men join teams with equal frequency when we add an efficiency advantage to team production …

age at first marriage. This paper examines the implications of women's delayed entry to marriage for marital stability … twenties, with the curve leveling off thereafter. Women who marry in the late twenties and thirties generally enter …