The Social Tax: Redistributive Pressure and Labor Supply

The Economics of Women’s Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Building Skills in Uganda

“…In addition, program coaches offer individual mentoring and invite successful program alumni to share their 1 Bursztyn, Gonzalez, and Yanagizawa-Drott (2020) illustrate the importance of social norms around female labor force participation. Fafchamps, McKenzie, et al (2014), Bernhardt et al (2019), Delecourt and Ng (2020) document that women may face higher pressure to share income with their family or social networks, potentially reducing female labor supply as in Carranza et al (2022). This may also explain why providing women with private savings accounts in Batista, Sequeira, and Vicente (forthcoming) is effective at reducing the gender profit gap for women entrepreneurs.…”