There is a well established correlation between initial entrepreneurship and subsequent employment growth across metropolitan areas. This relationship is true when modelling entrepreneurship through average establishment size or through the prevalence of startups; the relationship also holds at the industry level within cities. These patterns are often taken as evidence that entrepreneurship pr...

Erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) increase red blood cell (RBC) production by activating the erythropoietin receptor on erythrocytic progenitor cells. ESAs are approved in the United States and Europe for treating anaemia in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. ESA safety issues include thromboembolic events and there have been concerns about disease progression and/or mortality in ca...

BACKGROUND Erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) are widely used in the management of anemia in cancer patients. Despite their apparent effectiveness, recent studies have suggested that ESAs could result in serious adverse events and even higher mortality. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the benefits and risks of ESAs in the management of cancer patients with anemia using a meta...

Background Studies have assessed gender differences on symptoms commonly experienced by cancer patients at various stages in their disease trajectory using heterogeneous cancer populations with different tumor types. The purpose of our study was to evaluate the effect of gender on symptoms among patients with bone metastases while controlling for gender-specific malignancies. Methods A retros...

While entrepreneurial activity among women has increased over the last decade, research findings show a gender gap in terms of women’s entrepreneurial attitudes and behaviors. This study investigates how geographical context and age moderate the gender and entrepreneurial attitudes relationship. Our findings suggest that in rural states, the number of younger men and women intending to start bu...

This paper acknowledges the role of entrepreneurship for the development of the process of sustained livelihood. The paper proposes a systematic usage of the ‘Capability’ approach (Sen, 2000) as the basis of the methodology applied by agencies having objectives in lieu with the process of sustained livelihood, because of the wider applicability and span of this approach. Taking examples of rura...

The Support Paradox in Community Enterprise Experiments in The Netherlands* In many European countries, community entrepreneurship is increasingly considered as a means to initiate small-scale urban regeneration. However, residents in deprived communities are often viewed to lack key entrepreneurial attributes and skills. This paper reports a unique experiment in the Netherlands with nascent co...

Entrepreneurial activity has been argued to be an important stimulus of growth, especially in less developed countries. However, measuring the returns to entrepreneurship is made difficult due to potential selection on the basis of unobservable abilities and the agents’ imperfect information about their own comparative advantage in entrepreneurship. I develop a novel extension to projection-bas...