segregate into low-return industries and avoid entrepreneurship altogether. In this paper, we present a model of female … entrepreneurship and rule of law that predicts that women will only start businesses when they have both formal legal protection and …

Research on entrepreneurship often examines the local dimensions of new business formation. The local environment … dedicated to the geography of entrepreneurship. The paper frames the core questions facing researchers interested in assessing … the local causes and consequences of entrepreneurship, perturbs a core urban model to incorporate entrepreneurship, and …

. A second class of theories hypothesizes that some places are endowed with a greater supply of entrepreneurship. Evidence … on sales per worker does not support the higher returns for entrepreneurship rationale. Our evidence suggests that … entrepreneurship is higher when fixed costs are lower and when there are more entrepreneurial people …

Why do levels of entrepreneurship differ across America's cities? This paper presents basic facts on two measures of … entrepreneurship: the self-employment rate and the number of small firms. Both of these measures are correlated with urban success … entrepreneurship is linked to a large number of small firms in supplying industries. Finally, there is a strong connection between area …

Empirical research on cities starts with a spatial equilibrium condition: workers and firms are assumed to be … indifferent across space. This condition implies that research on cities is different from research on countries, and that work on …