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 …

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

underrepresented founders. The article ends with an extensive set of research ideas motivated by the gaps in the entrepreneurship …

Almost one third of women worldwide report some form of physical or sexual violence by a partner in their lifetime, yet …

typically protect against shocks in the male sphere of economic activity. Often overlooked are women, the particularities of … that it directly addresses women's risk and is sold in units that are commensurate with women's expenditure …. Protecting women, their assets and those who depend on them will require a combination of smart subsidies and gender …

We study the role of marriage for women's intergenerational mobility during the Ming-Qing (1368-1911) period. Using …

of three groups of low-educated women: foreign-born citizens, foreign-born non-citizens and native-born citizens. Among … employment and attachment to the labor market. TANF appears to have had a larger effect on the least educated native-born women …

Ever since Lucy Stone decided to retain her surname at marriage in 1855, women in America have tried to do the same ….,' among other factors, spurred surname retention among married women in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This paper tracks the … fraction of college graduate women who kept their surnames upon marriage and after childbirth and explores some of the …

Several studies have found that, all else equal, heavier women earn less. Previous research has been unable to … Youth, this paper attempts to generate consistent estimates of the effect of weight on labor market outcomes for women … lowers wages for white women; among this group, a difference in weight of two standard deviations (roughly sixty-five pounds …