Occupational sector selection is an important determinant of returns for female entrepreneurs. If sectors that are … traditionally male owned could provide an opportunity to earn higher returns, then what factors could encourage women to cross over … the firm performance and characteristics of women in male-dominated sectors (crossovers) with women who are in female …

proprietorships are more frequently used by female entrepreneurs, only three economies have similar or equal number of women business … owners relative to men. The gap in female entrepreneurship is especially apparent in low-income economies, where women are … female entrepreneurship and various institutional factors, including women's financial inclusion, the gender gap in education …

associated with female entrepreneurship (that is, a firm being managed and at least partly owned by women), along with other … entrepreneurship rises with foreign direct investment inflow, lower entry barriers for women, women's better access to finance, higher … effects of intra-industry foreign direct investment for female entrepreneurship are reduced when women face lower entry …

This paper is motivated by two stylized facts about poverty in Africa: female-headed households tend to be poorer, and … fared? And what role have they played in Africa's impressive recent aggregate growth and poverty reduction? Using data … product has dampened rising female headship. However, other subtle transformations occurring across Africa?changes in marriage …

advance women's economic empowerment in Africa …Female participation in entrepreneurial activities is higher in Sub-Saharan Africa than in any other region. However …, women-owned businesses significantly underperform those owned by men. This paper identifies the main constraints that women …

This paper presents findings from the impact evaluation of the Economic Empowerment of Adolescent Girls and Young Women … goal of increasing the employment and income of 2,500 young Liberian women by providing livelihood and life skills training … young women is equivalent to the value of three years of the increase in income among program beneficiaries. These …

conditional cash transfer experiment among teenage girls and young women in Malawi, which was designed to address these …. Policymakers looking to design cost-effective cash transfer programs targeted toward young women should note the relative …

This paper examines women's power relative to that of their husbands in 23 Sub-Saharan African countries to determine … how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a … novel measure of women's empowerment that is closely linked to classical theories of power, built from spouses' often …

Entrepreneurs that voluntarily choose to start a business because they are able to identify a good business opportunity … and act on it -- opportunity entrepreneurs -- might be different along various dimensions from those who are forced to … become entrepreneurs because of lack of other alternatives -- necessity entrepreneurs. To provide evidence on these …

A review of rigorous evaluations of interventions that seek to empower women economically shows that the same class of … sufficient to grow women-owned subsistence-level firms. However, it can work if it is delivered in-kind to more successful women … microentrepreneurs, and it should boost the performance of women's larger-sized SMEs. Very poor women need a more intensive package of …