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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 …
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fintech may increase gender discrimination. The rationale is that machine learning algorithms allow the platform to better …
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evidence on the sources of these information frictions. Social scientists have long conjectured that privacy norms around … discuss implications for pay transparency policies and the gender wage gap …
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Fintech, which delivers financial services digitally, promises to promote financial inclusion and close the gender gap …. Using a novel fintech dataset for 114 economies worldwide, this paper shows that fintech adoption significantly improves … female employment and reduces gender inequality, the effect being more pronounced in firms without traditional financial …
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We assess the role of FinTech firms in loans made through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The PPP program … employees on their payroll. We argue that FinTech firms’ reliance on technology rather than relationship-banking approaches used …
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gender wage gaps among Regular Wage/Salaried (RWS) workers in India, both at the mean, as well as along the entire wage … distribution to see "what happens where". The gender log wage gap at the mean is 55 percent in 1999-2000 and 49 percent in 2009 … that, in both years, the bulk of the gender wage gap is unexplained, i.e. possibly discriminatory. They also reveal that …
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