Zeballos, Eliana; Cassar, Alessandra; Wydick, Bruce - In: Journal of Development Studies 50 (2014) 2, pp. 276-287
This paper reports the results of an experiment testing a fundamental assumption in Stiglitz and Weiss' (1981) model of credit rationing: that defaulting borrowers are associated with investment in risky projects. Through an artefactual field experiment with 200 Bolivian microfinance borrowers,...