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 …

heightened entrepreneurship is due to channels like greater finance access or heightened inspiration for women entrepreneurs …/informal sector. These new establishments were concentrated in industries where women entrepreneurs have been traditionally active and …We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India …

With an overall lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the innovation sector documented in Gompers and Wang (2017), we … answer this question using a unique dataset of the gender of venture capital partners' children. First, we find strong …. Second, using an instrumental variable set-up, we also show that improved gender diversity, induced by parenting more …

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries …. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner …

discontinuity in Finland that allows certain entrepreneurs not to pay social insurance contributions on their income. Using rich … administrative data, we find that relaxing the social insurance mandate leads entrepreneurs to significantly reduce their …

Platforms often have "crowds" of amateurs working on them as complementors, in other cases professional entrepreneurs … affecting non-pecuniary payoffs--can lead the "bottom-to-fall-out" of the market to amateurs. Where the bottom-falls-out, there … development activity. I find no evidence that amateurs crowd-out development activity of top developers in this context. Moreover …

Serial entrepreneurs, who open more than one business, are found to have higher sales and higher productivity than … novice entrepreneurs, who open one business. Using panel data on entrepreneurs and their firms from Denmark for 2001 … entrepreneurs that hold a portfolio of overlapping ongoing firms perform the best, as do those that open as limited liability firm …