heightened entrepreneurship is due to channels like greater finance access or heightened inspiration for women entrepreneurs …We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India … with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not …

-owned establishments employed more women and paid women higher wages, creating a potential cycle between increased female business … ownership and increased female labor market participation. Female-owned establishments concentrated in sub-industries like women … from other women in the Population Census …

We investigate women's underrepresentation among holders of commercialized patents: only 5.5% of holders of such … patents are female. Using the National Survey of College Graduates 2003, we find only 7% of the gap is accounted for by women …'s lower probability of holding any science or engineering degree, because women with such a degree are scarcely more likely to …

entrepreneurship and rule of law that predicts that women will only start businesses when they have both formal legal protection and … a comparative advantage at violence and there is little rule-of-law, then unequal bargaining power can lead women to … segregate into low-return industries and avoid entrepreneurship altogether. In this paper, we present a model of female …

of India's largest women's bank. A random subsample was invited to attend with a friend. The intervention had a … for women facing more restrictive social norms? We offered two days of business counseling to a random sample of customers … were stronger among women from religious or caste groups with social norms that restrict female mobility …

article considers one friction that currently affects a small, but important, set of entrepreneurs: racial and gender … financing of startups. Female founders manage 16-25% of all startups, while Black entrepreneurs rarely exceed 3% of the startup … underrepresented founders. The article ends with an extensive set of research ideas motivated by the gaps in the entrepreneurship …

characteristics of the type of business, the borrower and the market structure of the credit market. The result is not driven by women …-employed individuals, we find robust evidence that women in Italy pay more for overdraft facilities than men. We could not find any … evidence that women are riskier then men. The male/female differential remains even after controlling for a large number of …

Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper … investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process … their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal …

government health insurance program that entitles 46 million poor individuals to free hospital care in Rajasthan, India. Females … in utilization, but effects are modest and limited to girls and young women. In the presence of gender bias, increasing …