Just the two of us, we can(’t) make it if we try: Owner-CEO gender and discouragement

Jérémie Bertrand, Aurore Burietz and Caroline Perrin

Economics Letters, 2022, vol. 216, issue C

Abstract: Research suggests that women are more discouraged from applying for a loan than men. Using cross-country data, we find that discouragement prevails only among woman-led firms with a higher share of woman owners, challenging the trend to promote gender diversity.

Keywords: Gender; Access to credit; Borrower discouragement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G21 G34 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110596

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