examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child …

%. At the household level, street paving increased the use of collateral-based credit and average loan size. Additionally … result of pavement. We provide compelling evidence that the mechanism explaining the durable goods increase is the credit … channel: the raise in durable goods as well as in credit use was only present among households with access to financial …

' inability to cover short-term consumption needs with savings or credit. We conduct a field experiment in rural Zambia to … investigate the relationship between credit availability and rural labor supply. We find that providing households with access to … credit during the growing season substantially alters the allocation of household labor, with households in villages randomly …

Agricultural credit is one of the most crucial inputs in all agricultural development programmes. Access of rural … credit has still remained scarce in India. Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS) working at grass-root level, having … institution. The present study examines the recovery performance of rural credit given by PACS in six different regions of India …

use of credit, at the individual and household level using representative pooled cross-section data drawn from the UK … Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling and the use of credit are shown to be positively correlated at the … between gambling and the use of credit is remarkably stable across household income. In addition to our household level …

observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less pessimistic about …