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Can Microfinance Unlock a Poverty Trap for Some Entrepreneurs?

Banerjee, Abhijit - 2019

, India, we find that "gung ho entrepreneurs" (GEs), households who were already running a business before microfinance …Can microcredit help unlock a poverty trap for some people by putting their businesses on a different trajectory? Could … model of technology choice in which talented entrepreneurs can access either a diminishing-returns technology, or a more …

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Aspirations and Financial Decisions : Experimental Evidence from the Philippines

McKenzie, David J.; Mohpal, Aakash; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

A randomized experiment among poor entrepreneurs tested the impact of exogenously inducing higher financial aspirations …

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The Persistent Power of Behavioral Change : Long-Run Impacts of Temporary Savings Subsidies for the Poor

Schaner, Simone - 2016

-run impacts on experimental bank account use and almost entirely driven by growth in entrepreneurship. Temporary interest rates … directed to joint bank accounts had no detectable long-run impacts on entrepreneurship or income, but increased investment in …

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Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose : Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development

Karlan, Dean - 2012

catalyze adoption of investments and practices aimed towards enterprise growth. We find that entrepreneurs invest the cash, and …

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Give Me a Pass : Flexible Credit for Entrepreneurs in Colombia

Brune, Lasse; Giné, Xavier; Karlan, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Microcredit promised business growth for small firms lacking access to banking loans. Yet while reaching millions, recent randomized evaluations suggest limited average business impacts. Critics often blame contract rigidity, specifically the fixed and frequent installments, for the lack of...

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Dangers of a Double-Bottom Line : A Poverty Targeting Experiment Misses Both Targets

Karlan, Dean - 2018

microlending to the poor, incorporated a widely-used poverty measurement tool into their loan applications and tested the tool …

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The Returns to Microenterprise Support Among the Ultra-Poor : A Field Experiment in Post-War Uganda

Blattman, Christopher - 2015

We show that extremely poor, war-affected women in northern Uganda have high returns to a package of $150 cash, five days of business skills training, and ongoing supervision. 16 months after grants, participants doubled their microenterprise ownership and incomes, mainly from petty trading. We...

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The Impacts of Microcredit : Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Augsburg, Britta - 2012

We use an RCT to analyze the impacts of microcredit. The study population consists of loan applicants who were marginally rejected by an MFI in Bosnia. A random subset of these were offered a loan. We provide evidence of higher self-employment, increases in inventory, a reduction in the...

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Taking Stock of the Evidence on Micro-Financial Interventions

Buera, Francisco J. - 2016

We review the empirical evidence on microfinance and asset grants to the ultra poor or microentrepreneurs, and assess … aggregate poverty traps …

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Hope as Aspirations, Agency, and Pathways : Poverty Dynamics and Microfinance in Oaxaca, Mexico

Lybbert, Travis J. - 2016

experimental study based on a hope intervention in Oaxaca, Mexico among 601 indigenous women with access to microfinance loans. Our …

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