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Female Entrepreneurship and Marriage: Does Individualism Matter?

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  • Nabamita Dutta

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The findings with regard to the impact of marital status on female entrepreneurs are ambiguous. Using an extensive individual-level data across countries over six time waves from 1981 to 2014, the article explores the role of a cultural trait—individualism—in affecting the relationship between married females and their self-employment rates. Our results show that for less individualistic societies, married females are 4.3% less likely to be self-employed. For highly individualistic societies, married females are 3.9% less likely to be self-employed. So individualism helps by lessening the magnitude by which the probability for a married female to be self-employed goes down. Identification is established via mitigating omitted variable bias, presenting inverse probability weight estimates and, finally, considering instrumental variable estimates. JEL Classification: L26, O11, Z10

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  • Nabamita Dutta, 2023. "Female Entrepreneurship and Marriage: Does Individualism Matter?," South Asian Journal of Macroeconomics and Public Finance, , vol. 12(1), pages 7-28, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:smppub:v:12:y:2023:i:1:p:7-28
    DOI: 10.1177/22779787211064505
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    Keywords

    Female entrepreneurship; self-employment; married females; culture; individualism; individual-level panel data;
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    JEL classification:

    • L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship
    • O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • Z10 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - General

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