Replication data for: Friendship at Work: Can Peer Effects Catalyze Female Entrepreneurship?

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Erica Field; Seema Jayachandran; Rohini Pande; Natalia Rigol

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Project Citation:

Field, Erica, Jayachandran, Seema, Pande, Rohini, and Rigol, Natalia. Replication data for: Friendship at Work: Can Peer Effects Catalyze Female Entrepreneurship? Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2016. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114614V1

Project Description

Summary: Does the lack of peers contribute to the observed gender gap in entrepreneurial success? A random sample of customers of India’s largest women's bank was offered two days of business counseling, and a random subsample was invited to attend with a friend. The intervention significantly increased participants' business activity, but only if they were trained with a friend. Those trained with a friend were more likely to have taken out business loans, were less likely to be housewives, and reported increased business activity and higher household income, with stronger impacts among women subject to social norms that restrict female mobility. (JEL G21, J16, J24, L26, M53, O16, Z13)

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      G21 Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
      L26 Entrepreneurship
      M53 Personnel Economics: Training
      O16 Economic Development: Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance
      Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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