Bob Rijkers|Rita Costa
Gender and Rural Non-Farm Entrepreneurship
World Bank|World Bank
using matched householdenterprisecommunity datasets bangladesh ethiopia indonesia sri lanka paper analyzes gender differences rural nonfarm entrepreneurship exception ethiopia women less likely nonfarm entrepreneurs men womens nonfarm entrepreneurship neither strongly correlated household composition educational attainment female firms smaller less productive countries except indonesia differences output per worker overwhelmingly accounted sorting sector size due differences capital intensity increasing returns scale human capital local investment climate characteristics