non-cognitive skills, with gender gaps in entrepreneurial performance in Africa. We have found that while financial … has a direct positive link with the performance of women. Consistent with our theoretical model where different skills are … that women entrepreneurs who are tenacious achieve stronger sales performance. Our results underscore the importance of …

unobserved family influences. We also explore gender differences in the context-dependence of genetic influences and find the …

for boys. For non-cognitive skills we find the opposite. We show in a simple model of parental investment that gender … preferences can explain our findings. Analyses exploiting within province, village level variation in gender attitudes confirm the … importance of parental gender preferences. Consequently, large scale programs can have positive (and possibly) unintended effects …

scientific performance; the Monte Carlo results again show that our estimator yields inference at the right significance level …

A large, mature and robust economic literature on pay for performance now exists, whichprovides a useful framework for … thinking about pay for performance systems. I use thelessons of the literature to discuss how to design and implement pay for … performance inpractice.... …