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. …

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. …

We develop a framework for quantifying barriers to labor force participation (LFP) and entrepreneurship faced by women … women entrepreneurs. However, there is one area in which female entrepreneurs have an advantage: the hiring of female …. Counterfactual simulations indicate that removing all excess barriers faced by women entrepreneurs would substantially increase the …

survey responses by descendants of US immigrants on questions about the role of women in society. We then investigate a …

funding gap reverses in female-dominated sectors, where female entrepreneurs are more likely to raise funding than male … entrepreneurs. Moreover, I show that conditional on being backed with equity, entrepreneurs outperform in gender-incongruent sectors …, suggesting that requirements for funding are higher for entrepreneurs that are minority in gender-incongruent sectors. The …

This paper shows that exposure to entrepreneurs during adolescence increases women's entry and performance in … entrepreneurship and improves the allocation of talent in the economy. Using population-wide registry data from Denmark, we exploit … idiosyncratic within-school, cross-cohort variation in early exposure to entrepreneurs, measured by the share of an adolescent …

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 …

Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to global challenges. However, they … various interventions suggest the need for more precise targeting. The multiple constraints faced by women entrepreneurs … highlights several interventions that show promise in supporting women entrepreneurs, significant gaps remain in the evidence …

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 …