caa a22 4500 445877715 CHVBK 20180317145532.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11187-011-9374-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11187-011-9374-z How do female entrepreneurs perform? Evidence from three developing regions [Elektronische Daten] [Elena Bardasi, Shwetlena Sabarwal, Katherine Terrell] Using the World Bank Enterprise Survey data, we analyze performance gaps between male- and female-owned companies in three regions—Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA), Latin America (LA), and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Among our findings are significant gender gaps between male- and female-owned companies in terms of firm size, but much smaller gaps in terms of firm efficiency and growth (except in LA). Part of the reason women run smaller firms is that they tend to concentrate in sectors in which firms are smaller and less efficient (in ECA and SSA). By contrast, we find no evidence of gender discrimination in access to formal finance in any of the three regions, although in ECA women are less likely than men to seek formal finance. Finally, while female entrepreneurs receive smaller loans than their male counterparts, the returns from each dollar they receive is no lower in terms of overall sales revenue. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC., 2011 Entrepreneurship nationallicence Gender nationallicence Finance nationallicence Latin America nationallicence Eastern Europe and Central Asia nationallicence Sub-Saharan Africa nationallicence Bardasi Elena PRMGE World Bank, Washington, DC, USA aut Sabarwal Shwetlena AFTED World Bank, Washington, DC, USA aut Terrell Katherine University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA aut Small Business Economics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 37/4(2011-11-01), 417-441 0921-898X 37:4<417 2011 37 11187 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-011-9374-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-011-9374-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bardasi Elena PRMGE World Bank, Washington, DC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sabarwal Shwetlena AFTED World Bank, Washington, DC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Terrell Katherine University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Small Business Economics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 37/4(2011-11-01), 417-441 0921-898X 37:4<417 2011 37 11187 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer