profound implications for the empowerment of women and how public policies such as microcredit may promote entrepreneurship … countries, but little research on the entrepreneurship of left-behind persons when migrants are still abroad. Using data from … the Mexican Family Life Survey, this paper examines the effects of ongoing migration on the entrepreneurship of left …

, sector, and province, drawing on administrative data of the population of individual entrepreneurs observed over the period … differs by gender: female migrant entrepreneurs show lower reactiveness to the existing stock of firms compared to their male …

religious practices, and that women are less likely to become entrepreneurs, even more as they are religious …, knowledge, and practice - on the likelihood for individuals to be entrepreneurs. We construct precise measures of both … religiousness and entrepreneurship from the 2017 World Value Survey Middle East Regional Module (Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon …

Self-employment is often used as synonymous with entrepreneurship. We define entrepreneurship as having the ambition to … either entrepreneurs or self-employed. The survey in addition contains detailed questions on economic preferences, attitudes … differences between self-identified entrepreneurs and the self-identified self-employed. Entrepreneurs differ substantially from …

entrepreneurship. Data on Uganda show that women breaking into male-dominated sectors make as much as men, and three times more than … women staying in female-dominated sectors. Factors including entrepreneurial skill/abilities and credit/human capital … constraints do not explain women's sectoral choices. However, information about profitability, male role models' influence, and …

productive assets to increase women's empowerment among sugar farmers in Uganda. We document that this intervention increases …Increasing women's empowerment is a key objective of many development programs, both as a principal goal and as a path … women's access to resources and agency by a substantial amount. In contrast, a behavior change intervention (training …

entrepreneurs for returnees but matter for non-migrants. -- Social capital ; entrepreneurship ; selection ; savings …The aim of this paper is to investigate whether return migrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs than non …

The aim of this paper is to investigate whether return migrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs than non … entrepreneurs for returnees but matter for non-migrants …

similarly distributed between female and male business founders, with effects being partly stronger for female entrepreneurs …