This paper reports about a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on …

economy. In particular, the empirical evidence provides consistent support that (1) the role of entrepreneurship has … may be that the current approach to entrepreneurship policy is misguided. The priority should not be on entrepreneurship …

We extend Lazear’s theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical … framework linking new business creation with an entrepreneur’s skill variety. Second, in this model we allow for both … entrepreneurs with more varied work experience are more likely to introduce innovations that have not only technical, but also …

The main contribution of entrepreneurship theory to economics is to provide an account of market performance in …

share of entrepreneurs first decreases and then increases in the course of economic development. Existing theory based on … the efficient number of entrepreneurs is bounded and changes in the course of economic development …

contradicts existing theoretical hypotheses which predict that entrepreneurship is pro-cyclical or not cyclical. We discuss …

models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present … paper it is shown that - when this variable is added - in all models there is a significant influence of entrepreneurship … while the remaining effects mainly stay the same. Entrepreneurship is measured as the business ownership rate (number of …

In this paper we focus on the timing of marriages of women, whose marriages are associated with bride wealth payments …

that women should withdraw from the labour market on the eve of marriage. Adherence to this norm is most clearly reflected … of farmers. Women in urban municipalities, however, set the norm far earlier and differences across social classes were …–class women. This paradox is resolved by noting that they substituted registered work for unregistered work, e.g., in house …