Bengtsson, Ola; Sanandaji, Tino; Johannesson, Magnus - 2012
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 …