Keynote
- Female Entrepreneurship is Good for the Economy (Pinelopi Goldberg)
- Presentation (Pinelopi Goldberg)
Session 1: Access to Credit and Skills
- Presentation: Is There a Gender Premium? Financial Frictions and Credit to Female Entrepreneurs (David Jaume)
- Academic Discussant Presentation (Miriam Bruhn)
- Research Findings on Female Entrepreneurship (David Jaume)
- Presentation: Building Women’s Skills for Economic Inclusion and Resilience (Megan Lang)
- Discussant (Silvia Prina)
- Policy Discussant (Abigayle Davidson)
Session 2: Leveraging Data for Impact Measurement
- Presentation: Promoting Inclusive Growth – World Bank Enterprise Surveys (Mohammad Amin and Norma Gomez)
- Presentation: ConnectAmericas for Women (July Jimene)
- Presentation: Private Sector Data for Gender (Sahiti Sarva)
Session 3: Innovative Financing
- Presentation: Innovative Financing Using MicroEquity Contracts: Experimental Evidence from India (Sanghamitra Mukherjee)
- Discussant (Diego Ubfal)
- Pre-Analysis: Incentivizing Lending to Women Entrepreneurs: Evidence from Vietnam (Markus Taussig)
- Discussant (Agustin Hurtado)
- Policy Discussant (Ratna Sahay)
Session 4: Enabling Environment
- Presentation: Gender Gaps in Time Use and Entrepreneurship (Faisal Sohail)
- Discussant (Diego Vera)
- Presentation: Sexual harassment and survival rates of women-owned businesses (Niklas Buehren)
- Discussant (José Tessada)
- Policy Discussant (Christopher Woodruff)
Session 5: MDBs Work with Women-led SMEs Through We-Fi Funds and Impact Evaluation Agendas
- Presentation: IDB Invest Knowledge Agenda Connected to Women-led SMEs (Patricia Yañez-Pagans)
- Presentation: Supporting Women-led SMEs – Overview of IFC’s Current and Future Work (Jaylan ElShazly)
- Presentation: Women Entrepreneurship – World Bank (Sonia Plaza)
- Presentation: EBRD Gender, Finance and Entrepreneurship Research (Michelle Brock and Aurica Balmus)
- Presentation: MDB’s Work with Women-led SMEs Through We-Fi Funds and Impact Evaluation Agendas (Russell Toth)
Session 6: The Care Economy
- Presentation: Self-Employed Mothers: Child Penalties, Maternity Benefits, and Family Health (Fabrizio Core)
- Discussant (Samuel Berlinski)
- Presentation: Minding Your Business or Your Child? Motherhood and the Entrepreneurship Gap (Valentina Rutigliano)
- Discussant (Valentina Duque)
- Policy Discussant (Michelle Adato)
Organizing and Scientific Committee
Michelle J. Brock (EBRD & CEPR)
Luciana Etcheverry (IDB)
Sean Higgins (Northwestern University)
Claudia Martinez (IDB & PUC Chile)
Jennifer Poole (American University)
Farid Tadros (We-Fi)
Miriam Bruhn (World Bank)
Paul Gertler (UC Berkeley)
Jeanne Lafortune (PUC Chile)
Anat Nyshadham (U Michigan)
Silvia Prina (Northwestern University)
Diego Ubfal (World Bank)
Patricia Yañez-Pagans (IDB Invest)
Ralph de Haas (EBRD)
Selim Gulesci (Trinity College Dublin)
Alessandro Maffioli (IDB Invest)
Eric Parrado (IDB)
Felicia Siegrist (We-Fi)
Diego A. Vera-Cossio (IDB)
