Given the importance of entrepreneurship for economic development through social and economic transformation, entrepreneurship education and training (EET) is growing throughout the world. The research on EET is also expanding and there is a need to better understand the impact of EET on business performance and its differential effect in men and women. Accelerators are entrepreneurship EET programs. Based on human capital theory, the paper uses Accelerators to assess the impact of EET programs on startup business performance. Given that female entrepreneurs’ human capital attributes are different from those of men and that the various components of Accelerator programs have been found to produce a differential effect on women, the paper proposes that Accelerators have the potential to produce a more pronounced positive effect in startups founded by female founders. We test this conjecture by exploring the impact of Accelerators in startup fundraising, in which female entrepreneurs face a significant gap. Our results confirm that female entrepreneurs who go through Accelerators increase their chances of receiving Venture Capital financing and that the marginal effect is larger for female than for male entrepreneurs.

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加速器（作为教育和培训计划）对女企业家的影响

鉴于通过社会和经济转型创业对经济发展的重要性，创业教育和培训 (EET) 在全世界范围内不断发展。EET 的研究也在不断扩大，需要更好地了解 EET 对企业绩效的影响及其对男性和女性的不同影响。加速器是创业 EET 计划。本文基于人力资本理论，使用加速器来评估 EET 计划对初创企业绩效的影响。鉴于女性企业家的人力资本属性与男性不同，并且已发现加速器计划的各个组成部分对女性产生不同的影响，该论文提出，加速器有可能对女性创始人创立的初创公司产生更显着的积极影响。我们通过探索加速器在创业筹款中的影响来验证这一猜想，其中女性企业家面临着巨大的差距。我们的结果证实，通过加速器的女性企业家增加了获得风险投资融资的机会，并且女性企业家的边际效应大于男性企业家。