April 2008 – Human Capital and Women’s Business Ownership [PDF File] by Darrene Hackler, Ellen Harpel, and Heike Mayer—Business Development Advisors, Research Summary. [PDF File]

September 2007 – Are Male and Female Entrepreneurs Really That Different? [PDF File] a working paper by Erin Kepler and Scott Shane, Research Summary. [PDF File]

August 2006 – Women in Business: A Demographic Review of Women’s Business Ownership [PDF file], written by Ying Lowrey, Research Summary [PDF file]

September 2005 - Preliminarily information on women and minorities in business, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, are available now on the census 2002 Survey of Business Owners (SBO) website. The explanation of the data can be found at http://www.census.gov/csd/sbo/intro2002SBO.htm. The census’ interactive data is sorted by industrial sectors and sorted by state.The SBO provides data on the number of firms, sales and receipts, employment, and annual payroll for kind of business, by gender, Hispanic or Latino origin, and race. Download Tables (Self-Extracting Microsoft Excel File).

May 2005 - Research Study (PDF file), Availability of Financing to Small Firms Using the Survey of Small Business Finances, submitted by Karlyn Mitchell and Douglas K. Pearce, (Research Summary)

December 2004 – Research Study [PDF file], Self-Employed Business Ownership Rates in the United States: 1979-2003, submitted by Robert W. Fairlie Research Summary.

March 2003 Research Study [PDF file], Dynamics of Women-Operated Sole Proprietorships, 1990-1998, includes major industries, patterns in the number of gross receipts, and net income of women-operated sole proprietorships based on data from the Statistics of Income, Internal Revenue Service. Financing patterns of women-owned businesses, based on the Survey of Small Business Finances of the Federal Reserve Board are also available in downloadable tables (Microsoft Excel Files).

January 2002 Research Study [PDF file], An Investigation of Venture Capital in Women-and Minority-led Firms, submitted by Candida G. Brush; Nancy Carter; Elizabeth Gatewood; Patricia G. Greene; and Myra M. Hart Research Summary.

October 2001 Research Study [PDF file], Women in Business, 2001, is a report on the ownership, formation, growth, management, financing and other social and economic characteristics of women in business, based upon data complied from federal government sources.

May 1999 Research Study [PDF file], Women and Minorities in Franchising and Financing Practices, submitted by Women in Franchising Inc., Research Summary.

October 1998 Research Report [PDF file], Women in Business – a report on statistical information about women-owned business.

1995 Research Study, Business Ownership as an Employment Opportunity for Women, submitted by Steven Lustgarten Research Summary [HTML file].

Historical research

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