Local financial access and income inequality in Chile

Arielis Valdebenito and Gabriel Pino

Economics Letters, 2022, vol. 210, issue C

Abstract: This paper proposes a local financial access indicator which captures the accessibility of localities isolated from urban centers. As a case of study, we use Chilean data to show that higher level of local financial access reduces income inequality.

Keywords: Financial access; Income inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176521004365
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:210:y:2022:i:c:s0165176521004365

DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2021.110170

Access Statistics for this article

Economics Letters is currently edited by Economics Letters Editorial Office

More articles in Economics Letters from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().