studies a cluster randomised controlled trial of a sanitation micro-credit program in rural India, which made available lower … interest loans for sanitation. The loans were linked with sanitation through their name only. The loans were not bundled with … boost sanitation investments. A simple theoretical framework indicates that the intervention could increase sanitation …

combining these financing mechanisms. We draw on a cluster RCT in rural India of a sanitation labelled microcredit program …, implemented by chance around the onset of a large sanitation policy comprising partial subsidies – Swacch Bharat or ‘Clean India …, we provide rigorous evidence of the impacts of labelled microcredit on household sanitation investment and borrowing …