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We analyze gender discrimination in entrepreneurship finance. Access to finance is crucial for entrepreneurial success … entrepreneurial teams. In a lab-in-the-field experiment with Ugandan loan officers, we document gender discrimination of individual … female entrepreneurs, but no gender bias in the evaluation of entrepreneurial teams. Our results suggest that the observed …
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We analyze gender discrimination in entrepreneurship finance. Access to finance is crucial for entrepreneurial success … entrepreneurial teams. In a lab-in-the-field experiment with Ugandan loan officers, we document gender discrimination of individual … female entrepreneurs, but no gender bias in the evaluation of entrepreneurial teams. Our results suggest that the observed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014388597
We study gender and race in high-impact entrepreneurship using a tightly controlled randomized field experiment. We … email was sent by a fictitious entrepreneur with randomly assigned gender and race. Female entrepreneurs received 9% more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014109451
This paper addresses the effects of female political role models on shaping women’s entrepreneurial activity and perceptions. Using a bivariate probit with an instrument, our findings reveal that the presence of female political leaders reduces the fear of failure towards entrepreneurial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348257
We conducted a field experiment to identify the causal effects of extrinsic incentive cues on the sorting and performance of nascent social entrepreneurs. The experiment, carried out with one of the United Kingdom's largest support agencies for social entrepreneurs, encouraged 431 nascent social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011947016
We test the hypothesis, based on popular and theoretical perspectives, that entrepreneurs are more action-oriented than other occupational groups. We compare their playing strategies in an optimal stopping game using a randomized online experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607388
We test the hypothesis, based on popular and theoretical perspectives, that entrepreneurs are more action-oriented than other occupational groups. We compare their playing strategies in an optimal stopping game using a randomized online experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011583687
The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To this end, we conduct a … randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade … zero or negative effects. Because these earlier studies all pertain to entrepreneurship education for adolescents, our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014170345
The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To this end, we conduct a … randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade … found zero or negative effects. Because these earlier studies all pertain to education for adolescents, our result …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106956
We analyze a field experiment conducted on AngelList Talent, a large online search platform for startup jobs. In the experiment, AngelList randomly informed job seekers of whether a startup was funded by a top-tier investor and/or was funded recently. We find that the same startup receives...
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