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Household Matters: Revisiting the Returns to Capital among Female Micro-entrepreneurs

Arielle Bernhardt
Erica Field
Rohini Pande
Natalia Rigol
Researchers re-examined data from previous studies in Ghana, India, and Sri Lanka to better understand the impact of credit and cash grant variations on micro-enterprise profits. Their results suggest that the gender gap in micro-enterprise performance was not due to ability, but rather to women’s...
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Reducing Barriers to Savings in Rural Malawi

Lasse Brune
Xavier Giné
Jessica Goldberg
Dean Yang
Researchers analyzed the effect of reducing barriers to saving in rural Malawi on savings behavior, investment in agricultural inputs, and consumption. They found that farmers with access to formal savings accounts preserved greater amounts of savings throughout both the harvest and planting seasons...
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Alcohol and Self-Control: A Field Experiment in India

Frank Schilbach
women in Mali discuss survey questions with an enumerator

Evaluating the Saving for Change Program in Mali

Lori Beaman
Dean Karlan
Jonathan Morduch
Bram Thuysbaert

The Rockefeller Effect: Looking at Organizations of the Disadvantaged in Kenya

Mary Kay Gugerty
Michael Kremer
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Information, Accountability, and Governance Among the Urban Poor in Delhi, India

Abhijit Banerjee
Selvan Kumar
Rohini Pande
Felix Su
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Near and Dear? Evaluating the Impact of Neighbor Diversity on Inter-Religious Attitudes

Sharon Barnhardt

Text Message Loan Repayment Reminders for Micro-Borrowers in the Philippines

Dean Karlan
Melanie Morten
Jonathan Zinman
In “the text message capital of the world,” the Philippines, researchers tested the effect of text message reminders on client repayment rates. In contrast with previous research, they found that text message reminders did not increase repayment on average. Yet for repeat borrowers, who had known...