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Can Microfinance Unlock a Poverty Trap for Some Entrepreneurs?
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Breza, Emily; Duflo, Esther; … - 2021
, India, we find that “gung ho entrepreneurs” (GEs), households who were already running a business before microfinance …
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Economic Opportunities and Gender Differences in Human Capital : Experimental Evidence for India
Jensen, Robert T. - 2010
Gender differences in health and education are a concern for a number of developing countries. While standard theory predicts human capital should respond to market returns, social norms (e.g., disapproval of women working outside the home) may weaken or even sever this link for girls. Though...
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The Dynamics of Gender Earnings Differentials : Evidence from Establishment Data
Barth, Erling - 2017
Despite dramatic workforce gains by women in recent decades, a substantial gender earnings gap persists and widens over the course of men's and women's careers. Since there are earnings differences across establishments, a key question is the extent to which the widening of the gender pay gap...
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Dangers of a Double-Bottom Line : A Poverty Targeting Experiment Misses Both Targets
Karlan, Dean - 2018
Two for-profit Philippine social enterprises, aiming to demonstrate corporate social responsibility by increasing microlending to the poor, incorporated a widely-used poverty measurement tool into their loan applications and tested the tool using randomized training content. Treated loan...
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The Returns to Microenterprise Support Among the Ultra-Poor : A Field Experiment in Post-War Uganda
Blattman, Christopher - 2015
We show that extremely poor, war-affected women in northern Uganda have high returns to a package of $150 cash, five days of business skills training, and ongoing supervision. 16 months after grants, participants doubled their microenterprise ownership and incomes, mainly from petty trading. We...
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The Impacts of Microcredit : Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina
Augsburg, Britta - 2012
We use an RCT to analyze the impacts of microcredit. The study population consists of loan applicants who were marginally rejected by an MFI in Bosnia. A random subset of these were offered a loan. We provide evidence of higher self-employment, increases in inventory, a reduction in the...
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Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Data
Amarante, Verónica - 2011
There is limited empirical evidence on whether unrestricted cash social assistance to poor pregnant women improves children's birth outcomes. Using program administrative micro-data matched to longitudinal vital statistics on the universe of births in Uruguay, we estimate that participation in a...
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Measuring the Equilibrium Impacts of Credit : Evidence from the Indian Microfinance Crisis
Breza, Emily - 2018
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 …
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Financing Smallholder Agriculture : An Experiment with Agent-Intermediated Microloans in India
Maitra, Pushkar - 2014
Recent evaluations of traditional microfinance loans have found no significant impacts on borrower incomes or …
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Building Social Capital Through Microfinance
Feigenberg, Benjamin - 2014
of microfinance. Random variation in the frequency of mandatory meetings across first-time borrower groups generates …
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