female entrepreneurship and various institutional factors, including women's financial inclusion, the gender gap in education … 2016. The paper finds that the gender gap in business ownership remains high in many economies around the world. In the … majority of the analyzed economies, less than one-third of new limited liability company owners are women. Although sole …

persistence, and women's occupational constraints-- with particular emphasis on the role of access to infrastructure. The first … several gender-based or gender-related experiments -- a reduction in the cost of child rearing, improved wage equality in the … promoting the role of women in growth strategies …

Recent studies have suggested that women's business decisions are influenced by members of their household, especially … their spouse, and that these intrahousehold dynamics contribute to gender gaps in entrepreneurship outcomes. This in …-depth qualitative study among microentrepreneurs in urban Ghana sought to understand the connections between women's businesses and …

of women-led firms. This paper examines a potential driver of these disparities: gender-biased loan officers. Officer … discern loan application quality may thus improve financing of business loans to women and reduce gender gaps in …Gender disparities in small and medium-size enterprise lending exist around the world and impede the growth of millions …

dowry payment and consanguinity. An empirical analysis using data from Bangladesh delivers robust results consistent with …

considers a country in Sub-Saharan Africa and finds that parental gender preferences do affect fertility behavior and shape … traditional social institutions with negative effects on adult women's health and well-being. Using individual-level data for … Nigeria, the paper shows that, compared to women with first-born sons, women with first-born daughters have (and desire) more …

Marital shocks are exceedingly common for women in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper investigates whether women who have … suffered a marital rupture experience lower welfare levels relative to married women in their first union. Conditional means … for women's nutritional status are compared by marital status across 20 countries. Overall, the results indicate …

Using a recent household survey for two cohorts of married women, this paper examines norms about gender equality in …. Perhaps the strongest result is that Bangladeshi women are more likely to espouse attitudes of gender equality in education … education for children and adults. Among the main findings are that gender education gap norms have changed: younger generations …

A range of reasons is cited to explain gender differences in business performance in Africa. Within those, the sector … of operations is consistently identified as a major issue. This paper uses a mixed methods approach to assess how women … entrepreneurs in Uganda start (and strive) operating firms in male-dominated sectors, and what hinders other women from doing so …