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-owned businesses, while controlling for their location by industry and country. We find that female entrepreneurs have significantly … that while both male and female entrepreneurs in ECA are sub-optimally small, women's returns to scale are significantly …
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entrepreneurship combining personal and contextual factors. Empirical results demonstrate that intentions to start a science-based new … scientists' sense of identification with these peers. A mediation analysis further indicates that gender-related differences in … entrepreneurial control-beliefs might help explain the widely-observed low proportion of female scientist-entrepreneurs. …
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This paper studies gender discrimination against entrepreneurs by financial institutions. Based on the Business … compared with male-managed counterparts. In addition, there is some evidence that female entrepreneurs are charged higher …
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We investigate women's underrepresentation among holders of commercialized patents: only 5.5% of holders of such patents are female. Using the National Survey of College Graduates 2003, we find only 7% of the gap in patenting rates is accounted for by women's lower probability of holding any...
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Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this paper examines the role of gender in the promotion …. Specifically, how do the factors related to promotion differ for men and women? How do gender differences in promotion translate … into differences in subsequent wage growth? To what extent does the promotions gap contribute to the gender wage gap? In …
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and gender gaps in outcomes. The technique cannot be used directly, however, if the outcome is binary and the coefficients …
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We address the bias from using potential vs. actual experience in earnings models. Statistical tests reject the classical errors-in-variable framework. The nature of the measurement error is best viewed as a model misspecification problem. We correct for this by modeling actual experience as a...
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This article analyses the extent to which changes in household composition over the life course affect the gender … most recent data available from the Time Use National Surveys. We focus on gender differences in the allocation of time …), we show large discrepancies in the gender division of labour at the different life stages. This gender gap exists in all …
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This paper is concerned with trends over the post-WWII period in the employment of American Jews as College and University teachers and in their receipt of the PhD. The empirical analysis is for PhD production from 1950 to 2004 and Jews are identified by the Distinctive Jewish Name (DJN)...
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The role of women in the ritual of many religions changed dramatically at the end of the 20th century, to the point where full participation by women was the norm by 2000 rather than the rarity that it had been 30 years earlier. This paper considers some aspects of the economic context that help...
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