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 … differences in personality. We show that women have markedly different psyche than men (11 out of 14 traits differ), and that …

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 … business sizes. We also highlight the agency of women entrepreneurs in influencing their spatial-institutional contexts. …

This policy brief on women in entrepreneurship was produced by the OECD and the European Commission. It explores the … Missing Entrepreneurs’. All these documents are available in English, French and German. They are available at http://www.oecd.org/cfe/leed/inclusive-entrepreneurship.htm. … gender gap in entrepreneurship, the differences between male- and female-owned businesses, and the unique challenges that …

This paper investigates career choices of women who marry high-income men. We find that women married to men in the top … welfare state where work is the norm for women, self-employment offers a way to avoid the stay-at-home stigma. It allows one …

Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … that it is primarily single women that drive the well-established empirical relationship between personal wealth and … business start-ups. Therefore, public policies specifically targeted at relieving the liquidity constraints of women could help …

. We focus on the rise of female entrepreneurship in Serbia and collect an extensive biographical dataset of women, who … female empowerment is female entrepreneurship; however, the literature on the emergence of female entrepreneurship is scarce … took part in privatization. Although women enjoyed the same de jure rights as men, they faced a number of informal …

Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to global challenges. However, they … various interventions suggest the need for more precise targeting. The multiple constraints faced by women entrepreneurs … highlights several interventions that show promise in supporting women entrepreneurs, significant gaps remain in the evidence …

also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …

also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …

that, after the Reunification, entrepreneurship is higher among the residents of East German regions with West TV signal …