Friendship at Work: Can Peer Effects Catalyze Female Entrepreneurship?
通过随机实验，发现与朋友一起参加商业培训的印度女性更可能获得贷款、增加商业活动和家庭收入，尤其对受社会规范限制的女性效果更强。
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.