Most previous studies have found evidence at the aggregate level that female entrepreneurs underperform relative to their male counterparts. This study conducts a comprehensive test of this finding. The test is conducted on a large Swedish sample of 4200 entrepreneurs (405 females) with 1 to 20...

Die im Zuge des Bologna-Prozess eingeleitete Studienstrukturreform ist in Deutschland, so zeigen die statistischen Analysen, weit vorangeschritten: Bis Ende 2010 war der Großteil der Studiengänge (81,9 %) auf das neue System umgestellt. Mehr als die Hälfte der Studierenden (55,4 %) war im...

Using longitudinal data, John Hobcraft has examined how far childhood experience andparental factors are linked to a wide range of outcomes in adulthood. Specific attention wasgiven to childhood poverty, family disruption, and contact with the police.The four (of 12) most powerful and consistent...

It is difficult to disagree with Vernon Smith's (2010) assessment of thestate of the art in experimental economics. It is informed by the experienceof someone who was there, right at the beginning of experimental economics.Some of the problems he discusses, like the frequent failure of backward...

The experience of recent years has shown that take-up of ICT, for example within strategies toimplement online public services, is a necessary but not sufficient condition for making progresstowards regional development goals. What is of interest is not ICT use per se, but applications...

Empirical research has shown that inexperienced fund managers yield significantly higherreturns than their more experienced colleagues. If the portfolios of inexperienced are not morerisky, this result would contradict the hypothesis of market efficiency. Therefore, it is animportant question...