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The American Economic ReviewI examine whether changing the form of disbursement of a microfinance loan enables female microfinance borrowers to overcome intra-household sharing pressure and grow their businesses.
E. Riley
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Time versus State in Insurance: Experimental Evidence from Contract Farming in Kenya
The American Economic Review, 2018 The gains from insurance arise from the transfer of income across states. Yet, by requiring that the premium be paid up front, standard insurance products also transfer income across time.
L. Casaburi, Jack Willis
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Research in Comparative and International Education, 2022 Given the expected advantages for individuals and societies, financial literacy is high on the policy agenda in many countries. This paper reports the results from a unique survey conducted on a sample of 13–16-year-old students in five European ...
M. Cannistrà +6 more
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SAGE OpenWe investigate the empirical nexus between financial inclusion and economic growth for an extended sample of 21 Asian countries spanning over a period from 2004 to 2019.
Shahzad Hussain +4 more
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SAGE Open, 2023 This study examines the complex interaction between Financial Development (FD) and Economic Growth (EG) in Algeria from 1980 to 2020 using nonlinear modeling techniques. We apply the Non-Linear Causality test with Transfer Entropy, a novel method in this
Abdullah Mohammad Ghazi Al khatib +2 more
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Household Matters: Revisiting the Returns to Capital among Female Microentrepreneurs
American Economic Review: Insights, 2019 Multiple field experiments report positive financial returns to capital shocks for male and not female microentrepreneurs. But these analyses overlook the fact that female entrepreneurs often reside with male entrepreneurs. Using data from experiments in
A. Bernhardt +3 more
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Poverty and Migration in the Digital Age: Experimental Evidence on Mobile Banking in Bangladesh
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018 Rapid urbanization is reshaping economies and intensifying spatial inequalities. In Bangladesh, we experimentally introduced mobile banking to very poor rural households and family members who had migrated to the city, testing whether mobile technology ...
J. Lee +4 more
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SAVINGS BY AND FOR THE POOR: A RESEARCH REVIEW AND AGENDA
The Review of Income and Wealth, 2014 The poor can and do save, but often use formal or informal instruments that have high risk, high cost, and limited functionality. This could lead to undersaving compared to a world without market or behavioral frictions.
D. Karlan +2 more
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The American Economic Review, 2017 Expanding credit access in developing contexts could help some households while harming others. Microcredit studies show different effects at different quantiles of household profit, including some negative effects; yet these findings also differ across ...
R. Meager
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Saving by Default: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural India
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018 Access to banks is rapidly increasing worldwide, and allows account-based instead of cash transfers. We conduct a randomized experiment documenting the impact of the payment method on savings behavior. In India, we allocate identical weekly payments into
Vincent Somville, L. Vandewalle
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