No man, No cry? Gender equality in access to credit and financial stability

Literature has found that women outperform men in terms of loan repayment. We can therefore question whether more gender equality access to credit fosters financial stability. test this hypothesis using cross-country data on inclusion from the World Bank's Global Findex database and bank-level perform regressions at bank level check existence a relation between female-to-male ratio find evidence negative gap Therefore our findings support view enhancing for relative is beneficial