Markets for consumer financial services are growing rapidly in low-and middle-income
countries and are being transformed by digital technologies and platforms. With growth and …

We document and quantify the effect of a gender gap in credit access on both
entrepreneurship and input misallocation in the US. Female entrepreneurs are found to be …

Purpose The crisis generated by the COVID-19 pandemic has had unprecedented effects
around the world and particularly on vulnerable populations, such as female entrepreneurs …

We develop empirical tests for discrimination that use high-frequency evaluations to address
the problem of unobserved heterogeneity in a conventional benchmarking test. Our …

We implement a lab-in-the-field experiment with 334 Turkish loan officers to document
gender discrimination in small business lending and unpack mechanisms. Officers review …

Literature reviews on metrics to quantify biases and techniques to mitigate them have been
made in the past. However, none of these investigations have centered on the application of …

The pandemic dealt a severe blow to Latin America and the Caribbean, inflicting
unfathomable human suffering and exacting a heavy economic toll. It has left many scars in …

La pandemia de enfermedad por coronavirus (COVID-19) ha tenido un impacto
diferenciado en las mujeres y ha profundizado los problemas estructurales que estas …

Purpose This research examined the role of post-conflict marketing in supporting
businesses within conflict-affected regions, aligning with the objectives of UN Sustainable …

We develop modified benchmarking tests for disparate treatment that we apply to 25 years of
mortgage lending. Our tests limit the scope for omitted variables by linking high-frequency …