The purpose of this paper is to analyse the factors that influence female entrepreneurship in Spain, using … Entrepreneurship Monitor and National Statistics Institute of Spain) covering the period 2003–2010. The main findings indicate that … informal factors (recognition of entrepreneurial career and female networks) are more relevant for female entrepreneurship than …

entrepreneurship education) are higher correlated with the student employer entrepreneurs than informal institutions (role models …, correlated with entrepreneurship as a choice. Specifically, entrepreneurship education is the most relevant variable in …

policy makers and future research seeking the institutions' effect on female entrepreneurship in the Middle East and Gulf …