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 …

, the recent rise of crowdfunding - raising capital from many people through an online platform - which offers little … initially startling. On the eve of launching equity-based crowdfunding, a new market for early-stage finance in the U.S., we … transaction costs, reputation, and market design, can explain the rise of non-equity crowdfunding and offer a framework for …

. 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 …

important role that entrepreneurship is believed to play in the process of economic growth, alleviating financing constraints …Financing constraints are one of the biggest concerns impacting potential entrepreneurs around the world. Given the … for would-be entrepreneurs is also an important goal for policymakers worldwide. We review two major streams of research …

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 …

We develop a framework for identifying and quantifying barriers to entry and operation faced by female entrepreneurs in … entrepreneurs still face substantial entry and business registration costs (almost twice their male counterparts'). The costs of … expanding a business, conditional on entry, are also substantially higher for women. However, there is one area in which female …