In western industrialized countries men are on average more than twice as active in entrepreneurship as women. Based on …

. -- Entrepreneurship ; gender difference ; start-up propensity ; decomposition analysis ; KfW Start-up Monitor ; Germany … one third. We scrutinize this gender gap using individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large …, entrepreneurship-related attitudes, and general personality traits of both business starters and non-starters. Estimating binary choice …

This project uses gender and sibling dynamics to explore the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. I find … family. I interpret this as evidence that the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship is driven at least in part …-only" level of transmission, the overall gender gap in self-employment would be reduced by nearly 20 percent …