This paper documents and analyzes the gender gap in the online credit market. Using data from Renrendai, a leading peer-to-peer lending platform in the People's Republic of China (PRC), we show that lending to female borrowers is associated with better loan performance, including a lower...

This study harnesses the imbalance in urban educational resources across China to investigate how such resources affect corporate labor costs. We find that urban educational resources negatively affect corporate labor costs and that the effect is causal. We further show that urban educational...