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This paper studies tax evasion in the form of under-reported wages in Ecuador using microdata from a combination of electronic billing and personal income tax returns filed in 2017. Bringing together this novel combination of data, the study applies the standard method Pissarides and Weber...
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. One represents its adoption by a Microfinance Institution (MFI), presenting the impact assessment on financial supply side …
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Being unable to access a loan while having to face unexpected expenses or trying to setup a small business contributes to push people into poverty or prevent them to escape it. But accessing loans which prove too expensive might also contribute to over-indebtedness and impoverishment at...
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Microfinance institutions (MFIs) have been successful in providing credit to millions of low-income borrowers in groups … examine microfinance interest rates and their determinants in order to understand how these rates might be lowered. Using high … profit-making MFIs charging lower interest rates. We also find that interest rate caps reduce the outreach of these …
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We exploit novel data collected within a randomised controlled trial of a sanitation microcredit intervention to study how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We show that – as long as the wife is involved in...
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We exploit novel data collected within a randomized controlled trial of a sanitation microcredit intervention to study how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We show that — as long as the wife is involved in...
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