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The importance of capital in closing the entrepreneurial gender gap: A longitudinal study of lottery wins

Sarah Flèche, Anthony Lepinteur and Nattavudh Powdthavee

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, vol. 188, issue C, 591-607

Abstract: Would improving women's access to capital reduce the gender entrepreneurial gap? We study this issue by exploiting longitudinal data on lottery winners. Comparing between large to small winners, we find that an increase in lottery win in period t − 1 significantly increases the likelihood of becoming self-employed in period t. This windfall effect is statistically the same in magnitude for men and women; the top 25% winners (an average win = £831.16) in year t − 1 report a significant increase in the probability of self-employment in year t by approximately 2 percentage points, which is approximately 20–30% of the gender entrepreneurial gap. These results suggest that we can causally reduce the gender entrepreneurial gap by improving women's access to capital that might not be as readily available to the aspiring female entrepreneurs as it is to male entrepreneurs.

Keywords: Gender inequality; Self-employment; Lottery wins; BHPS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J21 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2021.05.038

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