Sex, language and financial inclusion
Francis Osei‐Tutu and
Laurent Weill
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Francis Osei-Tutu
Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2021, vol. 29, issue 3, 369-403
Abstract:
Reference to gender in language can lead individuals to draw distinctions between genders and reinforce traditional views of gender roles. To test our hypothesis that language gender marking exerts an influence on the gender gap in financial inclusion, we draw on data for 117 countries in the World Bank's Global Findex database and perform logit estimations at the individual level. We find the gender gap in the probability of owning a formal account, having access to a formal credit, as well as having savings in a formal financial institution is higher for countries with gendered languages than for countries with genderless languages. These findings are confirmed in robustness checks that control for alternative measures of culture and estimations at the country level.
Date: 2021
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