The baby (s)he grows : investigating the causes of gender differences in entrepreneurial quality
Thesis: S.M. in Management Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2017.
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| author | Lakes, Lillian Sangeline |
| author2 | Pierre Azoulay and Fiona E. Murray. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1096522019-04-09T18:52:45Z The baby (s)he grows : investigating the causes of gender differences in entrepreneurial quality Baby she grows : investigating the causes of gender differences in entrepreneurial quality Baby he grows : investigating the causes of gender differences in entrepreneurial quality Investigating the causes of gender differences in entrepreneurial quality Lakes, Lillian Sangeline Pierre Azoulay and Fiona E. Murray. Sloan School of Management. Sloan School of Management. Sloan School of Management. Thesis: S.M. in Management Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2017. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 59-68). Recent reports suggest that female entrepreneurs are increasingly relevant to business dynamism and economic growth, but it appears that they may be forming different types of businesses relative to male entrepreneurs. Using a homogeneous sample of MIT alumni, this study applies a novel methodology to assess these gender-based dynamics. Building upon the Guzman and Stern (2016b) methodology, I link alumni survey results to state business registration and USPTO administrative data to develop estimates of entrepreneurial quality. Next, I study the gender differences observed in entrepreneurial participation and build evidence regarding how entrepreneurial quality is intertwined with personal characteristics such as gender, parental status and age of children, controlling for human capital. I find that the presence of young children motivates the entrepreneurial entry of both parents, with a more salient relationship for mothers. Female graduates with young children are 4.2% more likely to found a for-profit firm than female graduates with older children. The equivalent increase for male graduates is only 1.8%. [ show that females lag their male counterparts in the probability of founding a firm with high growth potential particularly when they pursue entrepreneurship as parents of preschool age children. While preschool fathers are 0.5% more likely than those with older children to found a firm with high growth probability, there is no significant growth probability premium for mothers of young children. Keywords: entrepreneurship, entry, growth, performance, gender, female, women, parents, children, age, preschool, work-family, conflict, alumni, public, policy. by Lillian Sangeline Lakes. S.M. in Management Research 2017-06-06T19:23:34Z 2017-06-06T19:23:34Z 2017 2017 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109652 987003654 eng MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 194 pages application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Sloan School of Management. Lakes, Lillian Sangeline The baby (s)he grows : investigating the causes of gender differences in entrepreneurial quality |
| title | The baby (s)he grows : investigating the causes of gender differences in entrepreneurial quality |
| title_full | The baby (s)he grows : investigating the causes of gender differences in entrepreneurial quality |
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| title_short | The baby (s)he grows : investigating the causes of gender differences in entrepreneurial quality |
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| topic | Sloan School of Management. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109652 |
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