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Informational Shocks and Street-Food Safety : A Field Study in Urban India

Daniele, Gianmarco - 2020

The street food market is a major source of food in developing countries, but is often characterized by unsafe food conditions. We investigate whether improvements in food safety can be achieved by providing information to vendors in the form of a training. Among randomly assigned groups of...

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The Impact of Micro-Credit on Employment : Evidence from Bangladesh and Pakistan

Kahn, Azhar - 2016

-experimental design, in Bangladesh and Pakistan. Three borrower groups are compared: Current borrowers; Pipeline borrowers and Non …. For Pakistan, there is no evidence that micro-credit effects employment. However, for Bangladesh, there is robust evidence …

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Thriving in the Rain : Natural Shocks, Time Allocation, and Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh

Vitellozzi, Sveva; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2023

paper examines the impact of the 2017 flood in Bangladesh on men's and women's time use patterns and women's empowerment … participation in housework to substitute for women's domestic work. These responses to the shock are confirmed only for those … find that the shock still positively affects both variables, suggesting that when endogenous, an increase in empowerment …

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Returns to Islamic Microfinance : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Pakistan

Maazullah, - - 2017

The global microfinance movement is driven by the claim that once poor micro-entrepreneurs are provided access to … substantiate this claim. This paper reports on a field experiment conducted in Pakistan, in co-operation with Akhuwat microfinance … microfinance institutions in Pakistan …

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Who are the Microenterprise Owners? Evidence from Sri Lanka on Tokman v. De Soto

De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2021

Is the vast army of the self-employed in low income countries a source of employment generation? We use data from surveys in Sri Lanka to compare the characteristics of own account workers (non-employers) with wage workers and with owners of larger firms. We use a rich set of measures of...

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Behavioral Foundations of Microcredit : Experimental and Survey Evidence from Rural India

Bauer, Michal - 2014

Microcredit is an innovative financial tool designed to reduce poverty and fix credit market imperfections. We use experimental measures of time discounting and risk aversion for villagers in south India to highlight behavioral features of microcredit. Conditional on borrowing from any source,...

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Win Some Lose Some? 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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Are Women More Credit Constrained? Experimental Evidence on Gender and Microenterprise Returns

De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2021

In a recent randomized experiment we found mean returns to capital of between 5 and 6 percent per month in Sri Lankan microenterprises, much higher than market interest rates. But returns were found to be much higher among men than among women, and indeed were not different from zero for women....

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Missing from the Market : Purdah Norm and Women's Paid Work Participation in Bangladesh

Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2017

South Asia are in wage employment. We revisit this puzzle using a nationally representative data set from Bangladesh. Probit …

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Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills, Hiring Channels, and Wages in Bangladesh

Hilger, Anne - 2018

This paper uses a novel matched employer-employee data set representing the formal sector in Bangladesh to provide …

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