Gender differences in Social Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Spain

Bridging the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Europe

There is no gender difference between success in establishing a business once both males and females have the same preference to self-employment and attempts towards establishing a new business. However, the gender gap tends to be huge when it comes to individual preferences and attempts to start up an entrepreneurial activity. In this study, we empirically estimate the role of inequality in in...

Gender differences: evidence from field tournaments

Women are under-represented in top positions, such as in business or in poli-tics. Traditional explanations, like differences in productivity and discrimination, are now complemented by psychological explanations based on lab experiments. We provide the first attempt to assess the comparative importance of psychological and traditional explanations in a natural field experiment, namely chess co...

Gender Differences in Response to Setbacks: Evidence from Professional Tennis

Gender differences in health: evidence from the Czech Republic.

Gender differences in health have been linked to gender stratification in the United States. Women's relation to production, paid and unpaid work, and their experience of this gender inequality disadvantage their self-rated health compared to men. Men's consumption or health lifestyles disfavors their comparative health. This formulation is tested in the Czech Republic with a sample of matched ...

Gender Differences in Personality and Social Behavior

The scientific study of gender differences has yielded a wealth of robust generalizations about the way males and females differ across domains, cultures, and developmental stages. This article provides a descriptive overview of gender differences in personality, social cooperation and competition (including aggression and play), and verbal and nonverbal communication. Qualitative statements ab...