sex in order to analyze the gender of debt and its interplay with caste and poverty, based on descriptive statistics and … econometric results. We show that women are heavily indebted, first and foremost to informal sources, alongside microcredit. While … women's behavior is constrained by family affiliation, poverty level and caste, all of which affects men much less. Last, in …

Microcredit has long been hailed as a powerful tool to promote livelihoods and reduce poverty through entrepreneurship … analyzing the effect of microcredit-enabled entrepreneurship on overall life satisfaction – a key manifestation of subjective … three villages of Bangladesh in 2013. In spite of having no direct effects, we find that microcredit borrowing has an …

This paper examines the effect of household access to microcredit upon work by seven to eleven year old children in … rural Malawi. Given that microcredit organizations foster household enterprises wherein much child labor is engaged, this … paper aims to discover whether access to microcredit might increase work by children. It is found that household access to …

microcredit, plays a role in children's food security, measured by anthropometric nutritional Z-scores. Access to microcredit is … assessed in a novel way as self-reported credit limits at microcredit organizations. Since credit limits, that is, the maximum … resources of lenders, it is plausible they are more exogenous than demand driven loan uptake or participation in microcredit …

Theory and evidence have raised concerns that microcredit does more harm than good, particularly when offered at high … microcredit causes harm. …