On March 2, we held a faiVLive webinar on Accounting for the Gender Profit Gap, with Nava Ashraf, Morgan Hardy, Rachael Pierotti, and Tatiana Rincón, and moderated by Tim Ogden.
Register to watch a recording of our discussion here.
Below we share links to some key research that was discussed in the webinar.
Website
Research into Closing the Gender Profit Gap
A preliminary but expanding website created by Morgan Hardy and Gisella Kagy, built to serve as a public resource for a global network of researchers interested in contributing to the broader research agenda. The organizers welcome suggestions for relevant data links, as well as submissions of new papers and ongoing projects, via the website.
Papers
Ashraf, Nava, 2009. Spousal Control and Intra-Household Decision Making: An Experimental Study in the Philippines
Ashraf, Nava, Alexia Delfino & Edward L. Glaeser, 2019. Rule of Law and Female Entrepreneurship
Bernhardt, Arielle, Erica Field, Rohini Pande, Natalia Rigol, 2019. Household Matters: Revisiting the Returns to Capital among Female Microentrepreneurs
Delecourt, Solène and Odyssia Ng, 2021. Does Gender Matter for Small Business Performance? Experimental Evidence from India
Field, Erica M., Rohini Pande, Natalia Rigol, Simone G. Schaner & Charity Troyer Moore, 2019. On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women's Financial Control Affects Labor Supply and Gender Norms
Friedson-Ridenoura, Sophia and Rachael S. Pierotti 2019. Competing priorities: Women’s microenterprises and household relationships
Guérin, Isabelle, Christophe Jalil Nordman, Elena Reboul, 2021. The Gender of Debt and Credit: Insights from Rural Tamil Nadu
Hardy, Morgan and Gisella Kagy. 2018. Mind The (Profit) Gap: Why Are Female Enterprise Owners Earning Less Than Men?
Hardy, Morgan and Gisella Kagy, 2020. It’s Getting Crowded in Here: Experimental Evidence of Demand Constraints in the Gender Profit Gap.
Riley, Emma, 2020. Resisting social pressure in the household using mobile money: Experimental evidence on microenterprise investment in Uganda
Blog posts on Women in Business
IDRC, Unleashing creativity and the confidence to dream
Fundación Capital’s work on women-led businesses with insights about coping mechanisms women are adopting.
Portal FinDev, Las Mujeres enfrentando los Impactos del Covid-19
More on women's coping mechanisms (in Spanish)
Next Billion, Social Protection Goes Digital
Supporting women's micro-business under mobility restrictions caused by the pandemic in Paraguay, using technology as an alternative for in-person visits.
The importance of a gender-based approach for MSE resilience and reinvention
Gender analysis to better design initiatives for women-led businesses (also in Spanish).
Editor’s Note: I’m going to assume that you are seeing plenty of AI content (news and papers, not AI slop, though I’m sure you’re getting plenty of that too) from other sources, so I’m trying to think hard about the marginal value that the faiV can provide. As far as I’ve gotten so far: a) make sure that directly AI-related content does not take up more than 2 of the 5 items, and b) try to focus specifically on the cybersecurity issue for financial inclusion. Beyond that, I’m open to feedback on the value you get from the faiV in relation to AI to help guide us in the future. On a different note, I’ll be making a brief cameo appearance at the e-MFP Inclusive Finance Conference to moderate the opening plenary. If you haven’t registered, do so and I hope to see you there! - Tim Ogden