, with labor laws and household banking quality also playing important roles. Looking at the district-industry level, we find … extensive evidence of agglomeration economies among manufacturing industries. In particular, supportive incumbent industrial … evidence for the Chinitz effect where small local incumbent suppliers encourage entry. The importance of agglomeration …

entrepreneurship relative to male entrepreneurship. We find evidence of agglomeration economies in both sectors, where higher female … female. Moreover, higher female ownership of local businesses in related industries (e.g., those sharing similar labor needs …

child labor in poor countries through measures such as product boycotts and the imposition of international labor standards …. The purported objective of such measures is to reduce the incidence of child labor in developing countries and thereby … show that these types of international action on child labor tend to lower domestic political support within developing …

States. We discuss rationales for the agglomeration of these activities and the economic consequences of clusters. We …