This paper uses aggregate data from the International Labor Organization and microeconomic data from the European Values Study to study the empirical determinants of gender gaps in entrepreneurship, distinguishing between gender gaps in employership and in self-employment. Our sample of 44...

This paper examines the effects of international trade in agricultural goods on structural transformation and economic growth. To do the analysis, I introduce international trade into a neoclassical growth model with two sectors, agriculture and non agriculture. A key feature of the model is the...

Using two comprehensive datasets on population of cities (1800-2000) and metropolitan areas (1960-2000) for a large set of countries, I present three new empirical facts about the evolution of city growth. First, the distribution of cities growth rates is skewed to the right in most countries...