Language gender-marking and borrower discouragement

Jérémie Bertrand, Francis Osei-Tutu and Laurent Weill

Economics Letters, 2022, vol. 212, issue C

Abstract: Research suggests that sex-based grammatical systems in languages are associated with gender differences in economic behavior. Using cross-country data on firms, we find that gendered languages lead women entrepreneurs to be more discouraged from applying for credit than male entrepreneurs.

Keywords: Language; Gender; Access to credit; Borrower discouragement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G21 J16 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110298

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