literacy training directly benefits men, it does not raise the sales level of women entrepreneurs. Instead, tertiary education … that women entrepreneurs who are tenacious achieve stronger sales performance. Our results underscore the importance of …-cognitive skills, among policies for women entrepreneurs …

countries, women entrepreneurs in Swaziland have smaller start-up capital and are less likely to fund it from formal sources … than men. Among women entrepreneurs, those with college education and confident in their skills tend to start their firms … search model and empirical analysis of survey of entrepreneurs from Swaziland. The results show that entrepreneurs of both …

In virtually all industrialized countries, women are underrepresented in entrepreneurship, and the gender gap exhibits … and associated peer effects. We study how early career entrepreneurship is affected by existing entrepreneurship among …. While men are more influenced by other men, women are more influenced by other women. We estimate that differences between …

employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment and leadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non … employment to entrepreneurship are positive, statistically significant and financially substantial. Even more, the results are … salaried jobs to entrepreneurship and lower losses on the reverse switch …

We use a representative sample of informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar to add new evidence on the magnitude of the … and male entrepreneurs. Only male entrepreneurs seem subject to pressure to redistribute from the distant network. Our … findings are consistent with situations where women working at home would essentially feel negatively the burden of their own …

) on fertility among reproductive-age women. We find that IU reduces the number of children born, with more pronounced …

We explore the export performance of Africa's underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel … of key business constraints, across both male and female entrepreneurs. We find that females are less likely to export … of female entrepreneurs, this limitation does not explain their relative inability to leverage value from exports …

The purpose of this paper is to provide a contribution to the identification of the role of entrepreneurship in … economic growth by mapping out: 1) alternative ways of looking at entrepreneurship, distinguishing 'creative destruction' from … firm); and 4) the possible scope for an economic policy aimed at maximizing the impact of entrepreneurship on economic …