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Credit access and life satisfaction: evaluating the non monetary effects of micro finance
Becchetti, Leonardo; Conzo, Pierluigi - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2010
Microfinance institutions are used to claim that their impact goes beyond money since rescuing from exclusion …. Our paper aims to verify the validity of this claim by evaluating whether access to microfinance loans has significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752130
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Credit access and life satisfaction : evaluating the nonmonetary effects of micro finance
Becchetti, Leonardo; Conzo, Pierluigi - In: Applied economics 45 (2013) 7/9, pp. 1201-1217
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009718420
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The Effect of Fair Trade Affiliation on Child Schooling: Evidence from a Sample of Chilean Honey Producers
Becchetti, Leonardo; Castriota, Stefano; Michetti, Melania - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
We evaluate the impact of fair trade (FT) affiliation on child schooling within a sample of Chilean honey producers with a retrospective panel data approach. From a theoretical point of view we argue that FT should have a positive effect on child schooling since it generates a short run pure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010584501
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The effect of fair trade affiliation on child schooling: Evidence from a sample of Chilean honey producers
Becchetti, Leonardo; Castriota, Stefano; Michetti, Melania - 2012
We evaluate the impact of fair trade (FT) affiliation on child schooling within a sample of Chilean honey producers with a retrospective panel data approach. From a theoretical point of view we argue that FT should have a positive effect on child schooling since it generates a short run pure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294278
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When Consumption Generates Social Capital: Creating Room for Manoeuvre for Pro-Poor Policies
Becchetti, Leonardo; Michetti, Melania - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2008
Economic interactions are often accused of being neutral, or even of generating adverse effects, not only on the social fabric but also on a factor (social capital) which is regarded as the foundation of both socio-economic activity and prosperity. In this paper we document how a particular form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561865
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When consumption heals producers: the effect of fair trade on marginalised producers’ health and productivity
Becchetti, Leonardo; Gianfreda, Giuseppina - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2008
Concerned consumers in the US and Europe are increasingly willing to pay an “ethical premium” for the social and environmental value of fair trade products. One of the fair trade criteria (aimed to enhance wellbeing and capacity building of marginalised producers) relates to producers health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413377
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The effect of fair trade affiliation on child schooling : evidence from a sample of Chilean honey producers
Becchetti, Leonardo; Castriota, Stefano; Michetti, Melania - In: Applied economics 45 (2013) 25/27, pp. 3552-3563
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010345896
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Creditworthiness as a signal of trustworthiness
Becchetti, Leonardo; Conzo, Pierluigi - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2010
experiment on a sample of participants/non participants to a microfinance program in Argentina and find that trustors give … significantly more to (and believe they will receive more from) microfinance borrowers. Trustees’ first and second order beliefs are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752120
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Bank Strategies in Catastrophe Settings: Empirical Evidence and Policy Suggestions
Becchetti, Leonardo; Castriota, Stefano; Conzo, Pierluigi - Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) - 2012
The poor in developing countries are the most exposed to natural catastrophes and microfinance organizations may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010800995
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Enhancing capabilities through credit access: Creditworthiness as a signal of trustworthiness under asymmetric information
Becchetti, Leonardo; Conzo, Pierluigi - In: Journal of Public Economics 95 (2011) 3, pp. 265-278
/trustworthiness nexus in an investment game experiment on a sample of participants/non-participants in a microfinance program in Argentina … and find that trustors give significantly more to (and believe they will receive more from) microfinance borrowers. The … participants appear more trustworthy and this may help microfinance to work. A related consequence is that, if (and only if …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010574292