the likelihood of women being elected to state legislatures in India. We show that the program increased voter … prioritization of leader competence over gender, boosting the share of women among candidates and state parliamentarians and the …

data with firm-level tax records to trace out the impacts of a blended finance program for female entrepreneurs in Turkey …. Using a synthetic difference-in-differences estimator, we show that participating banks durably increase lending to women … – both in absolute terms and relative to male entrepreneurs. The average treatment effect on treated banks' share of lending …