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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.

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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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
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What's Psychology Worth? A Field Experiment in the Consumer Credit Market

Are psychological features powerful drivers of consumer behavior?
Bertrand, M., Karlan, D., Mullainathan, S., Shafir, E. & Zinman, J., Yale University
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Social Connections and Group Banking

A study of the link between social connections and loan repayments
Karlan, S., Yale University
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Microfinance Games

Do endogenous group formations reduce moral hazard?
Gine, X., Jakiela, P., Karlan, D. & Morduch, J., Yale University
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Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on Microfinance Clients and Institutions

Entrepreneurship training: Impact on economic outcomes for the poor
Karlan, D. & Valdivia, M., Yale University
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Evaluating Microfinance Program Innovation with Randomized Controlled Trials: Examples from Business Training and Group versus Individual Liability

This paper illustrates the benefits of randomized controlled trials
Karlan, D., Harigaya, T. & Nadel, S., Yale University, Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)
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Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

The demand and supply of commitment savings (SEED) product in the informal sector
Ashraf, N., Karlan, D. & Yin, W., Yale University