We use an RCT to analyze the impacts of microcredit. The study population consists of loan applicants who were …

This paper reports on the first randomized evaluation of the impact of introducing the standard microcredit group … of a particular microfinance institution (Spandana) while the remainder were not, although other MFIs were free to enter … likely to have a microcredit loan. They were no more likely to start any new business, although they were more likely to …

Group lending has been widely adopted in the past thirty years by many microfinance institutions as a means to mitigate …

This paper examines a cost-reducing innovation to the delivery of "Self-Help Group" microfinance services. These groups …

of microfinance. Random variation in the frequency of mandatory meetings across first-time borrower groups generates …

In October 2010, the state government of Andhra Pradesh, India issued an emergency ordinance, bringing microfinance … loans in the affected state. We use this massive dislocation in the microfinance market to identify the causal impacts of a … sector (agriculture), suggesting that one important impact of the microfinance contraction was transmitted through its effect …