Chen, Sharon; Doerr, Sebastian; Frost, Jon; Gambacorta, … - 2021
Fintech promises to spur financial inclusion and close the gender gap in access to financial services. Using novel … survey data for 28 countries, this paper finds a large and ubiquitous ‘fintech gender gap’: while 29% of men use fintech … products, only 21% of women do. Country characteristics and individual-level controls explain about a third of the gap. Gender …
