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A significant number of women experience physical or sexual violence throughout their lives, with a considerable … portion of such incidents occurring in public spaces. Harmful social norms emphasizing men's power over women have been … against women during Holi. We analyze how perpetrators' and victims' gender norms drive violence against women. First, we find …
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This paper provides novel evidence that female U.S. House Representatives causally increase the U.S. government's demand for products and services provided by female entrepreneurs. Using detailed data on individual contracts between the U.S. federal government and private firms around close U.S....
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. Our results indicate that a societal climate of gender equality contributes to more women on boards, mainly through …
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Despite the importance of business creation for the economy and a relevant share of new firms being started out of unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on reemployment outcomes that ignore self-employment. In this paper, we...
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Rapid small business ownership growth rates among women have motivated research on issues related to gender and small … business performance. The importance of credit access for the success of small businesses, as well as evidence that women have … find higher loan denial rates and lower loan application rates among women compared with men. Testing the robustness of the …
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