Chaudhuri, K orcid.org/0000-0002-7492-1369, Sasidharan, S and Raj, RSN (2020) Gender, small firm ownership, and credit access: some insights from India. Small Business Economics, 54 (4). pp. 1165-1181. ISSN 0921-898X
Abstract
Using a comprehensive dataset on micro, small, and medium enterprises in India, we examine whether the gender of the owner matters in firm performance and in credit access from institutional sources. The study finds significant underperformance in the size, growth, and efficiency of firms owned by women when compared to those owned by men. In line with the evidence in the existing literature, our findings also support the view that women-owned firms are disadvantaged in the market for small-business credit. These findings suggest that addressing gender discrimination in the small-business credit market could help, partly, in bridging the performance gap between male- and female-owned firms.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
Keywords: | Gender; Small firms; Access to finance; India |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Economics Division (LUBS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 06 Nov 2018 15:28 |
Last Modified: | 22 Jun 2020 13:46 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s11187-018-0124-3 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:138217 |
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