Surveys, which measure firms’ experience of corruption and the gender of their owners and top managers. We find that women in …, ethically at least, good for business our research contributes to the literature on development, gender equality, and corruption …

upon discriminatory effects (direct effect). Whether gender has an impact on size and composition of start-up capital, is …

-time borrowers to loan officers of a large Albanian lender, we test for own-gender bias in the loan officer-borrower match. We find … is independent of loan officer gender. Ending up with an opposite-sex loan officer also affects demand for credit, with …

to show that own-gender preferences affect both credit supply and demand. Borrowers matched to officers of the opposite … gender are less likely to return for a second loan. The effect is larger when officers have little prior exposure to … borrowers of the other gender and when they have more discretion to act on their gender beliefs, as proxied by financial market …