This is a very interesting paper on barriers to female entrepreneurship:
Morazzoni, Marta & Sy, Andrea, 2022.
“Female entrepreneurship, financial frictions and capital misallocation in the US,” Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 129(C), pages 93-118.
https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/moneco/v129y2022icp93-118.html
First, the paper documents in the data that there is a differential access to credit based on gender: female entrepreneurs are more likely to be denied credit. Second, the authors use a quantitative model to measure the output loss generated by this gender imbalance.
From a computational point of view, the quantitative model in the paper is similar to Buera and Shin (2013). For toolkit users interested in the replication, I would suggest starting from my github repo on Buera and Shin: GitHub - aledinola/BueraShin2013example: Code implementing Buera & Shin (2013) - Financial Frictions and the Persistence ofHistory: A Quantitative Exploration