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Estimating the Impact of Microcredit on Those Who Take It Up : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Morocco
Crépon, Bruno - 2014
Morocco starting in 2006 by Al Amana, the country's largest microfinance institution. Al Amana was the only MFI operating in … and agriculture), and an increase in profit. But this increase in profit was offset by a reduction in income from casual …
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Self-Selection into Credit Markets : Evidence from Agriculture in Mali
Beaman, Lori - 2014
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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The Right Stuff? Personality and Entrepreneurship
Hamilton, Barton H. - 2018
We construct a structural model of entry into self-employment to evaluate the impact of policies supporting entrepreneurship. Previous work has recognized that workers may opt for self-employment due to the non-pecuniary benefits of running a business and not necessarily because they are good at...
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Tax Enforcement and Tax Policy : Evidence on Taxpayer Responses to EITC Correspondence Audits
Guyton, John - 2018
Each year, the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) sends notices to selected taxpayers who claim Earned Income Tax credit (EITC) benefits to request additional documentation to verify those claims. This paper uses administrative tax data to examine the impacts of these correspondence...
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The Impact of Consumer Credit Access on Employment, Earnings and Entrepreneurship
Herkenhoff, Kyle - 2016
How does consumer credit access impact job flows, earnings, and entrepreneurship? To answer this question, we build a new administrative dataset which links individual employment and entrepreneur tax records to TransUnion credit reports, and we exploit the discrete increase in consumer credit...
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Measuring the Equilibrium Impacts of Credit : Evidence from the Indian Microfinance Crisis
Breza, Emily - 2018
In October 2010, the state government of Andhra Pradesh, India issued an emergency ordinance, bringing microfinance … loans in the affected state. We use this massive dislocation in the microfinance market to identify the causal impacts of a …-collected district-level data set from 25 separate, for-profit microlenders matched with household data from the National Sample Survey …
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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 …
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The Persistent Power of Behavioral Change : Long-Run Impacts of Temporary Savings Subsidies for the Poor
Schaner, Simone - 2016
I use a field experiment in rural Kenya to study how temporary incentives to save impact long-run economic outcomes. Study participants randomly selected to receive large temporary interest rates on an individual bank account had significantly more income and assets 2.5 years after the interest...
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Financing Smallholder Agriculture : An Experiment with Agent-Intermediated Microloans in India
Maitra, Pushkar - 2014
Recent evaluations of traditional microfinance loans have found no significant impacts on borrower incomes or …
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Microcredit Impacts : Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco
Angelucci, Manuela - 2014
Theory and evidence have raised concerns that microcredit does more harm than good, particularly when offered at high interest rates. We use a clustered randomized trial, and household surveys of eligible borrowers and their businesses, to estimate impacts from an expansion of group lending at...
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