start-ups among women and explains about one third of the entire gender difference. Most substantially, men opt for a start …Women start fewer businesses than men. The start-up rate among women in Germany falls short of males' start-up rate by … one third. We scrutinize this gender gap using individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large …

This paper is concerned with whether women are less likely to express business start-up intentions because of a less …

of cognition. Women are more risk averse than men. Over an initial range, women require no further compensation for the …This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing … introduction of ambiguity but men do. At greater levels of ambiguity, women have the same marginal distaste for increased ambiguity …

personal contacts with a young entrepreneur and the regional share of nascent entrepreneurs. …

that while both male and female entrepreneurs in ECA are sub-optimally small, women's returns to scale are significantly …-owned businesses, while controlling for their location by industry and country. We find that female entrepreneurs have significantly …

substantial differences in the role of self-employment among low-skilled workers across gender and nativity - women and immigrants … substantially more financially rewarding option for most women. These findings raise the question of why low-skilled women enter … options and limited labor market opportunities in the wage/salary sector as motivating native born women to enter self …

The existence of gender gaps in test scores has been documented in the relevant literature for a wide range of … across regions within the same country are crucial determinants in understanding gender differences in PISA 2009 test scores …: girls perform relatively better in both maths and reading in societies where gender equality is enhanced, and the effect …