This paper investigates how gender disparities affect the time to repay group micro-finance loans using survival analysis and hazard decomposition techniques. We also control for the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the time needed by micro-finance loan borrowers to repay. We use a large...

This paper investigates how gender disparities affect the time to repay group micro-finance loans using survival analysis and hazard decomposition techniques. We also control for the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the time needed by micro-finance loan borrowers to repay. We use a large...

This paper investigates how gender disparities affect the time to default of both group and individual micro-finance loans. We also document and control for the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on micro-finance loan borrower’s time to repay capacity. We use two large proprietary samples of bank...