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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.
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?
Social Connections and Group Banking
A study of the link between social connections and loan repayments
Microfinance Games
Do endogenous group formations reduce moral hazard?
Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on Microfinance Clients and Institutions
Entrepreneurship training: Impact on economic outcomes for the poor
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
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
Expanding Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts
Would liberal loan screening criteria help in expanding credit access?
Using Experimental Economics to Measure Social Capital And Predict Financial Decisions
Does behavior in games predict real financial status of MFIs?
Observing Unobservables: Identifying Information Asymmetries with a Consumer Credit Field Experiment
Microfoundations for studying real effects of credit constraints