from such firms, we study the role of owners' gender in the credit decision of banks and the post-credit decision firm …

manager and the owner have a different gender, we find no such differences with male-only firms. Hence, interestingly banks … seem to assume that women invariably play second fiddle in the mixed-gender firms. We also show that discrimination between …

This paper studies the causal effect of gender bias on access to bank credit. We extract an exogenous measure of gender … data on 6,000 small business firms from 17 countries and find that in countries with higher gender bias, female-owned firms … countries in our sample. Overall, the evidence suggests that in high-gender bias countries, female entrepreneurs are more likely …

We identify the causal effect of gender bias on access to finance. We extract an exogenous measure of gender bias from … detailed dataset on small business firms from 17 countries and find that the inherited component of gender bias is associated … with gender-based discrimination in the credit market of the immigrants' country of origin. In particular, in countries …

We identify the causal effect of gender bias on access to finance. We extract an exogenous measure of gender bias from … detailed dataset on 6,000 small business firms from 17 countries and find that in countries with higher gender bias, female … driven by credit risk differences between female- and male-owned firms in high-gender bias countries or by any idiosyncrasies …