What a Difference a Y makes-Female and Male Nascent Entrepreneurs in Germany

By Joachim Wagner. Social Science Research Network, 2004

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Risk attitudes of nascent entrepreneurs–new evidence from an experimentally validated survey (2009, background): “14 It has to be pointed out, that Wagner (2007) , again making”
Nascent entrepreneurship: empirical studies and developments (2005, methodology): “To a certain extent the present author shares Wagner’s limited enthusiasm for the person-factor research reported above, but mainly for different reasons.”
Entrepreneurial role models, fear of failure, and institutional approval of entrepreneurship: a tale of two regions (2016, background): “Furthermore, individual control variables are gender (1 = female, 0 = male), whether respondents are currently in employment (1 = yes, 0 = no), and age of the individual (in years) (e.g., Driga et al., 2009; Koellinger et al., 2011; Wagner, 2007).”
Institutions, Latent Entrepreneurship, and Self–Employment: An International Comparison (2012, background): “Ardagna and Lusardi (2008) and Wagner (2007) use fear of failure as a measure of the attitude toward risk and find that entrepreneurs have less fear of failure than non-entrepreneurs.”
CEO Gender, Ethical Leadership, and Accounting Conservatism (2015, background): “Females are more fearful of failure when deciding to become self-employed (Wagner 2007).”
Gender Differences in Entrepreneurial Propensity (2013, unknown): “Differences in fear of failure are consistent with more pronounced degrees of loss aversion often observed among women (Dohmen et al., 2010, Wagner, 2004), but they could also reflect less favorable conditions for potential female entrepreneurs.”
A reconceptualization of fear of failure in entrepreneurship (2016, background): “, Arenius & Minniti, 2005; Kihlstrom & Laffont, 1979), and distinguish between nascent entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs (Arenius & Minniti, 2005; Minniti & Nardone, 2007; Langovitz & Minniti, 2007; Wagner, 2007).”
Individual Entrepreneurial Intent: Construct Clarification and Development of an Internationally Reliable Metric (2009, unknown): “6), plus several analyses stemming from them (Carter, Gartner, & Reynolds, 1996; Carter, Gartner, Shaver, & Gatewood, 2003; Cassar, 2007; Reynolds, Carter, Gartner, & Greene, 2004; Wagner, 2007).”
Entrepreneurial Perceptions and Intentions: The Role of Gender and Culture (2012, methodology): “In his study of German individuals, Wagner (2007) found gender-specific differences in risk aversion to be an important reason not to become self-employed with only 44% percent of all men, but 56% of all women in his sample considering fear of failure as a reason to avoid entrepreneurship.”
Education and entrepreneurial choice: An instrumental variables analysis (2010, unknown): “The determinants of entrepreneurial choice are widely researched (Evans and Jovanovic, 1989; Grilo and Thurik, 2008; Le, 1999; Lévesque et al., 2002; Parker, 2009; Roper and Scott, 2009; Sena et al., 2010; Wagner, 2007).”
Necessity and Opportunity Entrepreneurs and Their Duration in Self-employment: Evidence from German Micro Data (2009, result): “With both types of entrepreneurship, the proportion of men is higher than the proportion of women (67% or 66%); this is in line with other research (e.g., Fairlie and Meyer, 1996; Wagner, 2004).”
Entrepreneurs’ attitudes towards failure – an experiential learning approach (2007, result): “Second, we control for the gender of the respondents as recent research has indicated that fear of failure in entrepreneurial settings differ between males and females (Wagner, 2007).”
Buying science and selling science: gender differences in the market for commercial science (2007, background): “…who are “at risk” of engaging in entrepreneurial activity—also reveal that a key driver of the two-fold difference in rates of entrepreneurship is the gender-based fear of failure (after holding resource endowments constant) (Wagner, 2004) or negative self-perception (Shragg et al., 1992).”