Al-Azzam, Moh'd; Carter Hill, R.; Sarangi, Sudipta - In: Journal of Development Economics 97 (2012) 2, pp. 404-414
Using data from a survey of 160 urban borrowing groups of the Microfund for Women in Jordan, we investigate the effect of screening, peer monitoring, group pressure, and social ties on borrowing groups' repayment behavior as an indirect test of different theoretical models. The dependent...