Meghir, Costas; Augsburg, Britta; Haas, Ralph De; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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...