Montoya, Ana María; Parrado, Eric; Solis, Alex; … - 2020
We randomly assigned consumer loan requests (of random amount and length) to gender-balanced prospective-borrowers who … submitted by women are 18.3% less likely to be approved, with most of the gender effect coming from gender-biased officers … repayment rates than men and find that gender-biased officers in the treatment-group discriminated more against women relative …
