Gender differences, risk attitude and entrepreneurship in Kyrgyzstan

Raziyahan ABDİYEVA | Burulça SULAYMANOVA | Kamalbek KARIMŞAKOV

This study analyses the role of risk attitude for entrepreneurship by gender differences in Kyrgyzstan. Logit analysis is applied to the cross-sectional data set drawn from the nationally representative survey for 2011. Entrepreneurship is measured by the self-employment activities and analysed by the agricultural and non-agricultural sample. Results of the study show that more risk-taking preferences are associated with higher entrepreneurship probability. However, this effect is not persistent for women in further estimations for non-agricultural entrepreneurship sample, while for men higher ...Более