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 …

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

and women to become board nominees, and that it did not lead to new female board nominees being of lower quality than male …

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 …

In this paper, we document the historically low rate of hiring of women in the venture capital sector. We find that the …

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 …

expanding a business, conditional on entry, are also substantially higher for women. However, there is one area in which female … composition of female employment. Counterfactual simulations indicate that removing all excess barriers faced by women …

an entrepreneurial sector, the paper investigates the effects of taxes on the equilibrium level of entrepreneurship and …