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Improving the livelihoods of poor households and transitioning more women back to the labor force is a major challenge in South Asia. Self-employment promoted through women's groups has often been cited as a promising intervention towards this end. However, the evidence on the impact of such...
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How do borrowers respond to improvements in a lender's ability to punish defaulters? This paper reports the results of a randomized field experiment in rural Malawi that examines the impact of fingerprinting borrowers in a context where a unique identification system is absent. Fingerprinting...
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Using two surveys from Bangladesh, this paper provides evidence on the effects of microfinance competition on village …: proponents claim that competition of microfinance institutions reduces both the moneylender interest rate and households … address selection on unobservables without imposing standard exclusion restrictions, this paper finds that microfinance …
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