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 … incumbent conditions in 2000-2005. The results highlight that the traits of business owners in incumbent industrial structures …

entrepreneurship and rule of law that predicts that women will only start businesses when they have both formal legal protection and … industries with more women, but gender differences are ameliorated when women have access to adjudicating institutions, such as … a comparative advantage at violence and there is little rule-of-law, then unequal bargaining power can lead women to …

Does the lack of peers contribute to the observed gender gap in entrepreneurial success, and is the constraint stronger … 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 …

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

stagnation in the share of women among economics Ph.D.s in recent years, there has been a remarkable rise in gender …-related dissertations in economics over time and in many sub-fields. Women economists are significantly more likely to write gender … names, we investigate the connection between the gender of economics dissertators and dissertation topics. Despite …

characteristics and on countries' regulatory differences. We show that individual characteristics, such as gender, age, and status in … the workforce are important determinants of entrepreneurship, and we also highlight the relevance of social networks, self …

article considers one friction that currently affects a small, but important, set of entrepreneurs: racial and gender … discrimination. I first collect facts from a large empirical literature that show clear gender and race gaps in participation and … underrepresented founders. The article ends with an extensive set of research ideas motivated by the gaps in the entrepreneurship …

We study shareholder support for corporate board nominees in the context of the California gender quota, which was … and women to become board nominees, and that it did not lead to new female board nominees being of lower quality than male …

This paper provides an overview of what has happened over the past fifty years for women as they worked to break … through professional barriers in economics, policy, and institutional leadership. We chart the progress of women in higher … education at the college level and beyond and then go on to examine women's representation at the upper levels of academia …