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Crowdfunding platforms may advantage female entrepreneurs, unlike traditional lending channels, with women's funding campaigns’ completion time being 20% shorter than those of men or couples across three Dutch platforms

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Gender effects in crowdfunded business loan campaigns

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Crowdfunding platforms may advantage female entrepreneurs, unlike traditional lending channels.

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Crowdfunding platforms may advantage female entrepreneurs, unlike traditional lending channels, with women's funding campaigns’ completion time being 20% shorter than those of men or couples across three Dutch platforms

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0305601

Article Title: Gender effects in crowdfunded business loan campaigns

Author Countries: The Netherlands

Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.


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