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A Majority of India’s Poor Women May Miss COVID-19 PMJDY Cash Transfers

This brief  discusses some ideas for how to increase access to the social safety net during a crisis.

Rohini Pande, Simone Schaner, Charity Troyer Moore & Elena Stacy, Yale University, The Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR)
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Microfinance Impact Assessments: The Perils of Using New Members as a Control Group

Are the problems of dropout biases inherent in cross-sectional impact evaluation solvable?
Karlan, D., Yale University
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Expanding Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts

Would liberal loan screening criteria help in expanding credit access?
Karlan, D. & Zinman, J., Yale University
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Using Experimental Economics to Measure Social Capital And Predict Financial Decisions

Does behavior in games predict real financial status of MFIs?
Karlan, D., Yale University
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Observing Unobservables: Identifying Information Asymmetries with a Consumer Credit Field Experiment

Microfoundations for studying real effects of credit constraints
Karlan, D. & Zinman, J., Yale University
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Rural Financial Markets in Developing Countries

Role of financial intermediaries, competition and regulations in shaping changing structures
Conning, J. & Udry, C., Yale University
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SEED: A Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

Do savings product designs 'cause' an increase in savings?
Ashraf, N., Karlan, D. & Yin, W., Yale University
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Deposit Collectors

Why do depositors opt for a deposit collection service?
Ashraf, N., Karlan, D. & Yin, W., Yale University
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Elasticities of Demand for Consumer Credit

Consumers' borrowing behavior when interest rates and/or loan maturity are exogenously changed
Karlan, D. & Zinman, J., Yale University
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Collateral Substitutes in Microfnance

Is enforcement the main problem in credit provision?
Bond, P. & Rai, A., Yale University