Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India

By Syed Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr, Stephen D. O'Connell. 2013

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We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not increase after the reforms, we find significant evidence that more women-owned establishments were created in the unorganized/informal sector. These new establishments were concentrated in industries where women entrepreneurs have been traditionally active and the entry was mainly found among household-based establishments. We measure and discuss the extent to which this heightened entrepreneurship is due to channels like greater finance access or heightened inspiration for women entrepreneurs.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies

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• Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs: A Review of Recent Literature (2018, unknown): “17 Connected to optimism described before, there is also evidence that female entrepreneurship increases in developing economies as conditions improve, peer networks take root, and women observe inspiring examples (Ghani et al., 2014; Field et al., 2015).”