Barking up the Wrong Tree? Measuring Gender Gaps in Firm’s Access to Finance
利用巴巴多斯、牙买加和特立尼达和多巴哥的新数据，研究女性领导的企业是否更易面临融资约束，发现更精确的性别构成指标显示女性主导企业确实更受限制。
The literature on gender-based discrimination in credit markets is recently expanding, but the results are not yet definitive and have not been generally agreed upon. This paper exploits a new dataset on Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago, which provides detailed information about female ownership and management in firms for investigating the existence of a gender gap in access to finance. The evidence presented herein suggests that more precise measures of the gender composition of the firm show that women-led businesses are more likely to be financially constrained than other comparable firms.