, India, we find that "gung ho entrepreneurs" (GEs), households who were already running a business before microfinance …

networks. We first study 75 villages in Karnataka, 43 of which were exposed to microfinance after we first collected detailed … microfinance are at least as likely to disappear as links involving likely borrowers. We replicate these surprising findings in the … context of a randomized controlled trial in Hyderabad, where a microfinance institution randomly selected neighborhoods to …

-based lending product in a new market. In 2005, half of 104 slums in Hyderabad, India were randomly selected for opening of a branch … of a particular microfinance institution (Spandana) while the remainder were not, although other MFIs were free to enter …. We found no changes in any of the development outcomes that are often believed to be affected by microfinance, including …

Morocco starting in 2006 by Al Amana, the country's largest microfinance institution. Al Amana was the only MFI operating in …

demographic and social network data in 43 villages in South India before microfinance was introduced in those villages and then …We examine how participation in a microfinance program diffuses through social networks. We collected detailed … first informed about the program, "the injection points". Microfinance participation is higher when the injection points …

We evaluate a large-scale set of interventions to increase demand for immunization in Haryana, India. The policies …

on an anti-drunken driving campaign in Rajasthan, India. In each police station, sobriety checkpoints were either rotated …

, we conducted a large-scale messaging campaign in West Bengal, India. Twenty-five million individuals were sent an SMS …