Kausik Chaudhuri|Subash Sasidharan|Rajesh Raj Natarajan
Gender, small firm ownership, and credit access: some insights from India
University of Leeds|Indian Institute of Technology Madras|Sikkim University
using comprehensive dataset micro small medium enterprises india examine whether gender owner matters firm performance credit access institutional sources study finds significant underperformance size growth efficiency firms owned women compared owned men line evidence existing literature findings also support view womenowned firms disadvantaged market smallbusiness credit findings suggest addressing gender discrimination smallbusiness credit market could help partly bridging performance gap male femaleowned firms