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 …

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 …

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

) affect local entrepreneurship and R&D activities upon entry. We find that R&D activities of MNEs in an industry stimulate …

Global innovation and entrepreneurship has traditionally been dominated by a handful of high-income countries … the dramatic growth of high-potential entrepreneurship and venture capital in China. First, using comprehensive data on … global venture activities, we show that as the Chinese venture industry rose in importance, entrepreneurship increased …

This article reviews the recent literature in economics on small-scale entrepreneurship ("microentrepreneurship") in … attention to unique issues that arise with female entrepreneurship …

The fraction of U.S. college graduate women entering professional programs increased substantially around 1970 and the … age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women soared just after 1972. We explore the relationship between … women. Although the pill' was approved in 1960 by the FDA and diffused rapidly among married women, it did not diffuse among …