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We examine whether returns to capital are higher for farmers who borrow than for those who do not, a direct implication of many credit market models. We measure the difference in returns through a two-stage loan and grant experiment. We find large positive investment responses and returns to...
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activities, as well as access to education, financial means, and other endowments that prepare individuals for their …
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-advising is likely to democratize access to financial services. Big data is likely to reduce the impact of negative prejudice in …
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money interface. Using high frequency panel survey data and randomizing access and prices at the individual level, we find …
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This paper provides evidence on the difficulty of expanding access to credit through large institutions. We use … highlight the difficulty of increasing financial access using large formal sector financial organizations …
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We experimentally test the impact of expanding access to basic bank accounts in Uganda, Malawi, and Chile. Over two … expanding access to basic accounts are unlikely to improve welfare noticeably since impacts, even if present, are likely small …
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inclusion: access (determined by a participation cost), depth (determined by a borrowing constraint), and intermediation … entrepreneur with access to credit) are amplified, while the impacts on the extensive margin (promoting credit access) are dampened … policy impacts. Multiple frictions are necessary to match the country-specific variables, e.g., credit access ratio, interest …
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Web3 and DeFi are widely advocated as innovations for greater financial inclusion and democratization. We assemble the most comprehensive dataset to date on the largest Web3 ecosystem and use large-scale computing to conduct an initial investigation. We describe Ethereum's network structure,...
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This paper investigates the tradeoff between competition and financial inclusion resulting from the vertical integration between mobile network and money operators. Joining newly assembled data on mobile money fees through the WayBack machine, with sources on network coverage and financials, we...
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This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We combine novel survey data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes of...
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