We show that the rise of crowdfunding over the past decade fostered entrepreneurship and output growth in the United …. Moreover, we uncover that crowdfunding boosts entrepreneurship by reducing geographic and demographic frictions in offline … present early evidence that this crowdfunding-entrepreneurship nexus matters significantly for growth …

world, the countries of Africa, and for individual states/provinces within nations. Based on theory, novel findings, and …

mitigate the problem: online crowdfunding for medical expenses, wherein patients reach out to their social network for monetary … support via online platforms that facilitate the process. On the surface, medical crowdfunding holds the potential to address … inequalities across patient populations. We leverage proprietary data from a large medical crowdfunding platform based in the …