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Gender differences in the repayment of microcredit: The mediating role of trustworthiness
Abstract
Growing evidence suggests that women are more likely to repay collateral-free microloans than men. However, we know little about what explains such gender differences. We hypothesize that better repayment performance of women microcredit borrowers can largely be explained by gender differences in innate trustworthiness. We conduct a trust game and a microloan repayment game in rural Bangladesh. We find that women are more trustworthy than men...
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Title
Gender differences in the repayment of microcredit: The mediating role of trustworthiness
Published Date
Jan 1, 2020
Journal
Volume
110
Pages
105685 - 105685
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