We study whether mothers' labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads mothers to be more likely to have a paid job and to have a...

We study whether mothers' labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads mothers to be more likely to have a paid job and to have a...

Whenever a country specializes on industries that use female labor intensively, its female labor force participation should increase. This intuition, which bases on the Stolper-Samuleson Theorem, may fail in a three-factor, two-good model. We develop a model where capital, male and female work...

This paper uses firm level data from the World Bank Enterprise surveys conducted in 2019 and from the COVID-19 follow-up surveys conducted in 2020 in ten European countries to investigate the link between the gender of the firm's owner and firm survival until 2020.The estimated effect of female...

Using data from in-depth interviews with seventeen (17) women microentrepreneurs in the Philippines, we examined their engagement in e-commerce activities by studying their entrepreneurial motivations, business operations, resources used in executing and managing e-commerce, and challenges that...

Publicly funded business advisory services face pressure to demonstrate value-added effects among their assisted firms. Our research aims to measure the effectiveness of a business advisory program developed in a developed country and applied in an emerging economy with a male-dominated labor...

This paper aims to present a review of recent research carried out by the Author involving a large sample of Italian family Small and Medium Enterprises, (SMEs) investigating cognitive and cultural issues at the base of gender stereotype mechanisms. This paper also aims to discuss if and to what...

This paper studies Chile's 2009 Equal Pay for Equal Work law and its impact on manufacturing plant behavior. Using the difference-in-discontinuities design to exploit the law's quasi-experimental properties, I find that large plants with disclosure requirements and substantially higher penalties...

This paper uses firm level data from World Bank Enterprise surveys conducted in 2019, and COVID-19 follow-up surveys conducted in 2020, in ten European countries to investigate the link between the gender of the firm's owner and the firm's survival until 2020. The empirical investigation uses...