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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Sexual violence has long been a problem on college campuses, yet federal policies to protect students have largely been … the implications of these investigations on college enrollment, particularly for women. We combine institution-level panel … data on enrollment by age and gender, with information on Title IX investigations to study changes in women's college …
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-lasting positive effects on labor market and marriage outcomes, particularly for women. We give insights on internal migration as a … outcome of university construction. Local universities reduced men's migration for study and women's migration for early …, particularly for women …
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both high aspiration and low aspiration entrepreneurship. We also find that women benefit more from the larger informal … hypotheses; that women are less likely to undertake entrepreneurial activity in countries where the rule of law is weaker; where … are more robust and address multicollinearity between the institutional measures. We find that women are less likely to …
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In virtually all industrialized countries, women are underrepresented in entrepreneurship, and the gender gap exhibits … and associated peer effects. We study how early career entrepreneurship is affected by existing entrepreneurship among …. While men are more influenced by other men, women are more influenced by other women. We estimate that differences between …
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The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To this end, we conduct a … randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade …
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We analyze the influence of two contradicting settings on the success in the academic spin-off creation process. Scientists, who are embedded in the academic setting, have to reach out and adapt to the logics of the commercial setting to successfully found their firm. However, along this...
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Using administrative data from a large 4-year public university, we show that male students are 18.6 percent more … likely than female students to receive favorable grade changes. These gender differences cannot be explained by observable … characteristics of the students, instructors, and the classes. Surveys of students and instructors reveal that regrade requests are …
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