Language gender-marking and borrower discouragement

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Bertrand, Jérémie | Osei-Tutu, Francis | Weill, Laurent

Edité par HAL CCSD ; Elsevier

International audience. 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.

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