Szafarz, Ariane; Agier, Isabelle - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2013
by a gender-biased lender, depending on the borrower’s creditworthiness and the intensity of the lender’s bias. The … empirical analysis detects no gender bias in loan denial, but uncovers disparate treatment with regard to credit conditions. In … particular, we find a “glass ceiling” effect. The gender gap in loan size increases disproportionately with respect to the scale …