Reference to gender in language can lead individuals to draw distinctions between genders and re-inforce traditional views of gender roles. To test our hypothesis that language gender-marking exerts an influence on the gender gap in financial inclusion, we draw on data for 117 countries in the...

We examine the effect of regional favoritism on the access of firms to credit. Using firm-level data on a large sample of 29,000 firms covering 47 countries, we investigate the hypothesis that firms in the birth regions of national political leaders have better access to credit. Our evidence...

This study investigates the role of religiousness - defined as a multidimensional set of religious beliefs, feelings, knowledge, and practice - on the likelihood for individuals to be entrepreneurs. We construct precise measures of both religiousness and entrepreneurship from the 2017 World...