treatment of HIV/AIDS. Many supply- and demand-side factors in sub-Saharan Africa could cause smaller than expected …-based triple difference specification, we find that local ART introduction increased the weight of high HIV likelihood adult women … health in sub-Saharan Africa are surmountable …

. India has the largest proportion of missing adult women who are without a husband, followed by the countries in East Africa … women in developing countries face particularly severe vulnerabilities, so that excess mortality faced by the unmarried is … more extreme for women in these regions compared to developed countries. We provide systematic estimates of the excess …

We investigate women's underrepresentation among holders of commercialized patents: only 5.5% of holders of such … patents are female. Using the National Survey of College Graduates 2003, we find only 7% of the gap is 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 …

Serial entrepreneurs, who open more than one business, are found to have higher sales and higher productivity than … novice entrepreneurs, who open one business. Using panel data on entrepreneurs and their firms from Denmark for 2001 … entrepreneurs that hold a portfolio of overlapping ongoing firms perform the best, as do those that open as limited liability firm …

on entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts—and the data confirm—that entrepreneurs are positively selected on …We study the effects of ability and liquidity constraints on entrepreneurship. We develop a three sector Roy model that … differentiates between entrepreneurs and other self-employed to address puzzling gaps that have emerged between theory and evidence …

discontinuity in Finland that allows certain entrepreneurs not to pay social insurance contributions on their income. Using rich … administrative data, we find that relaxing the social insurance mandate leads entrepreneurs to significantly reduce their …

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 review the extensive literature since 2000 on the personality traits of entrepreneurs. We first consider baseline … consider risk attitudes and goals and aspirations of entrepreneurs. Within each area, we separate studies by the type of … entrepreneurial behavior considered: entry into entrepreneurship, performance outcomes, and exit from entrepreneurship. This …

Entrepreneurship research is on the rise but many questions about its fundamental nature still exist. We argue that … entrepreneurship is about experimentation: the probabilities of success are low, extremely skewed and unknowable until an investment is …