We investigate women's underrepresentation among holders of commercialized patents: only 5.5% of holders of such … accounted for by women's lower probability of holding any science or engineering degree, because women with such a degree are … scarcely more likely to patent than women without. Differences among those without a science or engineering degree account for …

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 …

tests the hypotheses derived by exploiting the introduction of a "fresh start" policy in Germany in 1999 as a natural …

probability of being an entrepreneur versus an employee or a manager. Our findings reveal that, in particular, trust impacts …

of work reduces the chances of being an entrepreneur by 0.2-0.3 percent. This result holds after controlling for regional …