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. …

Microcredit is an innovative financial tool designed to reduce poverty and fix credit market imperfections. We use … microcredit. Conditional on borrowing from any source, women with present-biased preferences are more likely than others to borrow … through microcredit institutions. Microcredit contracts require loan repayments in regular, fixed installments and they …

three villages of Bangladesh in 2013. In spite of having no direct effects, we find that microcredit borrowing has an …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 …

Do constraints to technology adoption vary by behavioral traits? We randomize 150 villages in Bangladesh into being … offered standard microcredit, loans with a grace period, the choice between those two contracts, and control. No discernible …

-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We …

implemented in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1977. Village data from 1974, 1982 and 1996 suggest that program villages experienced extra … Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades. …

This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … found to be more extensive in Bangladesh than in China, and is very much a problem for rural children in both countries. The …