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 …

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 …

We investigate whether peer effects at work differ by gender and whether the gender difference in peer effects – if any … – depends on work organization, precisely the structure of social networks. We develop a social network model with gender …-directionally along an undirected line (from peers to the worker and from the worker to peers). We identify strong gender differences in …

corruption, weaker property rights and especially intellectual property rights, and a larger state on entrepreneurs who plan to …

shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- and financial-capital endowments of potential entrepreneurs entering … credentials of highly educated potential entrepreneurs, in particular, predict avoidance of small-firm ownership in some …