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What lottery wins reveal about the gender gap

Sarah Fleche, Anthony Lepinteur and Nattavudh Powdthavee


The UK has seen a rapid increase in self-employed workers over the last two decades, but only one-third are women. Sarah Fleche and colleagues analyse data on lottery winners to show that improving women's access to capital could help reduce the gender gap in entrepreneurial activity.


22 February 2022     Paper Number CEPCP620

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This CentrePiece article is published under the centre's Community Wellbeing programme.