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Can Microfinance Unlock a Poverty Trap for Some Entrepreneurs?
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2019
, India, we find that "gung ho entrepreneurs" (GEs), households who were already running a business before microfinance …
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Aggregate Implications of Barriers to Female Entrepreneurship
Chiplunkar, Gaurav; Goldberg, Pinelopi K. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We develop a framework for identifying and quantifying barriers to entry and operation faced by female entrepreneurs in developing countries, and apply it to the Indian economy. We find that despite considerable progress over time, female entrepreneurs still face substantial entry and business...
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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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Gender-Specific Transportation Costs and Female Time Use : Evidence from India's Pink Slip Program
Chen, Yutong; Cosar, Kerem; Ghose, Devaki; Mahendru, Shirish - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Reducing gender-specific commuting barriers in developing countries has complex and diverse effects on women's labor dynamics. We study a program that offers free bus rides for women in several Indian states (the Pink Slip program) using a synthetic difference-in-differences approach to shed...
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The Dynamics of Gender Earnings Differentials : Evidence from Establishment Data
Barth, Erling - 2017
We use a unique match between the 2000 Decennial Census of the United States and the Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics (LEHD) data to analyze how much of the increase in the gender earnings gap over the lifecycle comes from shifts in the sorting of men and women across high- and low-pay...
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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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Changes in Social Network Structure in Response to Exposure to Formal Credit Markets
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Breza, Emily; Chandrasekhar, Arun G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
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 …
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