potential welfare loss. Using data from a randomized evaluation with dairy farmers in rural India, we test the impact of …

This paper analyzes gender-differences with respect to microfinance repayment-rates using a large global dataset … covering 350 Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) in 70 countries. The results indicate that more women clients is associated with …

This paper investigates the repayment behavior of borrowers of a nonprofit Indian microfinance institution, Indian …

-in-the-field experiment with microcredit borrowers in the Philippines. Our design allows us to observe social pressure, which is considered …

a bank in the Philippines to conduct a field experiment to examine these issues. Working with 169 previously formed … the treatment groups. -- microfinance ; group lending ; group liability ; joint liability ; social capital …

groups created after two years in the expansion areas. -- Microfinance ; group lending ; group liability ; joint liability …

We conduct the first field experiment of a performance-contingent microfinance contract. A large food multinational … large positive impacts from the contractual innovations. These findings demonstrate the economic appeal of microfinance …

of microfinance. Random variation in the frequency of mandatory meetings across first-time borrower groups generates … field experiment among a subset of clients provides direct evidence that more frequent interaction increases economic …

This paper investigates how gender disparities affect the time to default of both group and individual micro-finance … loans. We also document and control for the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on micro-finance loan borrower’s time to repay …

This paper investigates how gender disparities affect the time to repay group micro-finance loans using survival … micro-finance loan borrowers to repay. We use a large sample of bank microfinance group loans from August 2017 to August …