Language gender-marking and borrower discouragement

Jérémie Bertrand, Francis Osei-Tutu and Laurent Weill
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Jérémie Bertrand: LEM - Lille économie management - UMR 9221 - UA - Université d'Artois - UCL - Université catholique de Lille - Université de Lille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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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)
Date: 2022-03
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Published in Economics Letters, 2022, 212, pp.110298. ⟨10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110298⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110298

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