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 …

Important gender differences in earnings and career trajectories persist. Particularly, in professions such as business …. Gender differences in competitiveness have been proposed as a potential explanation. Using an incentivized measure of … competitiveness, this paper investigates whether competitiveness explains future gender differences in earnings and industry choice in …

We study the role of face-to-face interaction for gender differences in deceptive behavior and perceived honesty. In … perceived honesty matters and men's truthfulness rises way beyond the level of women. To elaborate on these gender differences …

related to preference for favourable inequality, with significant gender differences in the impact of these distributional … characteristics to vary by gender, the pure gender effect is explained away. We find that gender gaps in distributional preferences … along with selected personality traits are the most relevant explanations for gender differences in willingness to compete …

sizable gender effects. Women attend research sessions more diligently than men (at any point in time only half of the …