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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 …
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Dangers of a Double-Bottom Line : A Poverty Targeting Experiment Misses Both Targets
Karlan, Dean - 2018
Two for-profit Philippine social enterprises, aiming to demonstrate corporate social responsibility by increasing microlending to the poor, incorporated a widely-used poverty measurement tool into their loan applications and tested the tool using randomized training content. Treated loan...
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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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Implicit and Explicit Commitment in Credit and Saving Contracts : A Field Experiment
Afzal, Uzma - 2019
microfinance institution. We offer a commitment contract inspired by the rotating structure of a ROSCA. Additional treatments test …
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Investing Outside the Box : Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private Capital
Lerner, Josh - 2018
This paper undertakes a comprehensive analysis of alternative investment vehicles in private equity, using unexplored custodial data about 112 limited partners over four decades. We differentiate between alternative vehicles that are GP-directed versus those where the LP has some discretion. Of...
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Social Finance
Kuchler, Theresa - 2020
We review an empirical literature that studies the role of social interactions in driving economic and financial decision making. We first summarize recent work that documents an important role of social interactions in explaining household decisions in housing and mortgage markets. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482193
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Learning to Navigate a New Financial Technology : Evidence from Payroll Accounts
Breza, Emily - 2020
How do inexperienced consumers learn to use a new financial technology? We present results from a field experiment that introduced payroll accounts in a population of largely unbanked factory workers in Bangladesh. In the experiment, workers in a treatment group received monthly wage payments...
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Changes in Social Network Structure in Response to Exposure to Formal Credit Markets
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Breza, Emily; Chandrasekhar, Arun G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
networks. We first study 75 villages in Karnataka, 43 of which were exposed to microfinance after we first collected detailed … microfinance are at least as likely to disappear as links involving likely borrowers. We replicate these surprising findings in the … context of a randomized controlled trial in Hyderabad, where a microfinance institution randomly selected neighborhoods to …
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Seasonal Liquidity, Rural Labor Markets and Agricultural Production
Fink, Günther - 2018
Many rural households in low and middle income countries continue to rely on small-scale agriculture as their primary source of income. In the absence of irrigation, income arrives only once or twice per year, and has to cover consumption and input needs until the subsequent harvest. We develop...
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