The current study examines the gender gap in SME ownership and socio-economic factors which lead women to start Small … Nuwara Eliya district where only 20% of SMEs are owned by women. However, the gender gap in SME ownership is comparatively … and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Sri Lanka. The study conducted enterprise survey with 329 SME owners and also household …

Allowing for a free choice of the recipient's gender in a dictator game (N = 508), we find that women show a … substantial gender biased towards females. Adding a charity recipient to the possible choices, the charity becomes the primary … recipient and overall transfers increase. Yet, conditioning on transfers to fellow students the gender bias of women remains …

According to gender personality traits, women are more interested in people, whereas men are more interested in things …. The goal of this research is to see if there is a gender gap in financial literacy and if these disparities can be …

This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … effects on occupational sorting, the gender wage gap, and fertility. …

This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … effects on occupational sorting, the gender wage gap, and fertility. …