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 …

. Our results suggest that networking frictions are an important reason men benefit more than women from exposure to VCs …. Such frictions can help explain part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship, and also have implications for how to design …

We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We … entrepreneurship relative to male entrepreneurship. We find evidence of agglomeration economies in both sectors, where higher female …

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 …

soliciting the current client in the event of termination of employment. The socially optimal level of entrepreneurship will … are too restrictive and produce too little entrepreneurship, and governments can increase welfare by limiting enforcement …

important role that entrepreneurship is believed to play in the process of economic growth, alleviating financing constraints … examining the relevance of financing constraints for entrepreneurship. We then introduce a framework that provides a unified …

with experimentation to learn about earnings. This pattern motivates estimating the expected returns to entrepreneurship … found to constitute a substantial portion of the monetary value of entrepreneurship. The model is then used to evaluate …