Access to adequate start-up capital has been identified as an important deterrent to microenterprise development and growth. Using firm level data from Mexico's National Survey of Microenterprises, we estimate a stochastic frontier production function with inefficiency effects related to the...

Female Hispanic-owned businesses in the United States of America or Latina enterprises are emerging as an important conduit of national economic vitality. Using data from the 2023 Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative nationally representative survey of 1513 Latina-owned employer...