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Inequality in Financial Inclusion and Income Inequality

Authors :
Aslan, Goksu
Deléchat, Corinne
Newiak, Monique
Yang, Fa
Aslan, Goksu
Deléchat, Corinne
Newiak, Monique
Yang, Fa
Publication Year :
2017

Abstract

We investigate the link between gender inequality in financial inclusion and income inequality, with three contributions to the recent literature. First, using a micro-dataset covering 146,000 individuals in over 140 countries, we construct novel, synthetic indices of the intensity of financial inclusion at the individual and country level. Second, we derive the distribution of individual financial access “scores” across countries to document a “Kuznets”-curve in financial inclusion. Third, cross-country regressions confirm that our measure of inequality in financial access is significantly related to income inequality, above and beyond other factors previously highlighted in the literature.

Details

Language :
English
ISBNs :
9781484324905 and 9781484328767
Database :
eBook Index
Journal :
Inequality in Financial Inclusion and Income Inequality
Publication Type :
eBook
Accession number :
1658616