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Article Dans Une Revue Economics Letters Année : 2022

Language gender-marking and borrower discouragement

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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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hal-03703981 , version 1 (24-06-2022)

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Jérémie Bertrand, Francis Osei-Tutu, Laurent Weill. Language gender-marking and borrower discouragement. Economics Letters, 2022, 212, pp.110298. ⟨10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110298⟩. ⟨hal-03703981⟩
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