A striking fact about entrepreneurship is that the number of male entrepreneurs greatly exceed the number of female … entrepreneurs. We use detailed survey data from Sweden to study to what extent this gender gap can be explained by gender … personality traits can explain a modest part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship: our estimates suggest 21%-32%. We also …

-employed using longitudinal data four months following the first 'lockdown' in the UK. We specifically test the role of family …

longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a …

longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a …

-employed were more strongly hit than their male counterparts. For our analysis, we use representative, real-time survey data where …

data in which respondents were asked about their situation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings indicate that among …

Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … formation in an instrumental variables framework, using a previously unexplored data set from the UK. The new results indicate … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship. …

Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …

context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship takes place and when this happens. Where context has been studied in … embeddedness of women entrepreneurs or the institutional environment for women's entrepreneurship. We contribute to the literature … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography …

what directions? We take advantage of nationwide data collected in 2010/11 and 2015/16 by India's National Sample Survey … access in promoting entrepreneurship among informal sector firms in India. Our results are robust to alternative …