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In the New York Times: The Role of Microfinance

Date: December 2009
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Dean Karlan
Themes: Credit

Microfinance Games

Date: November 2009
Authors: Xavier Giné, Pamela Jakiela, Dean Karlan, Jonathan Morduch
Country: Peru
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Product Design
Focus: Research

Spousal Control and Intra-Household Decision Making: An Experimental Study in the Philippines

Date: September 2009
Authors: Nava Ashraf
Country: Philippines
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Savings

Teacher Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from India

Date: September 2009
Authors: Karthik Muralidharan, Venkatesh Sundararaman
Country: India
Sectors: Education
Focus: Policy and Practice

Impact Assessments in Finance and Private Sector Development: What have we learned and what should we learn?

Date: August 2009
Authors: David McKenzie
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Research Methodology
Focus: Research

Access to Finance

Date: June 2009
Authors: Dean Karlan, Jonathan Morduch
Country: Global
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Big Picture, Insurance, Research Methodology
Focus: Research

Coping with Political Instability: Micro Evidence from Kenya’s 2007 Election Crisis

Date: June 2009
Authors: Esther Duflo, Jonathan Robinson
Country: Kenya
Sectors: Community, Health
Themes: Post-conflict
Focus: Research

Credit Market Innovations

Date: June 2009
Authors: Dean Karlan, Jonathan Morduch
Country: Global
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Big Picture, Credit
Focus: Policy and Practice

Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Date: June 2009
Authors: Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer, Jonathan Robinson
Country: Kenya
Sectors: Agriculture
Themes: Big Picture, Commercialization & Subsidy, Technology Adoption

Risk Management and Insurance

Date: June 2009
Authors: Dean Karlan, Jonathan Morduch
Country: Global
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Big Picture, Insurance
Focus: Policy and Practice

The Economics of Saving

Date: June 2009
Authors: Dean Karlan, Jonathan Morduch
Country: Global
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Big Picture, Savings
Focus: Policy and Practice

Additional Resources versus Organizational Changes in Education: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Date: May 2009
Authors: Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, Michael Kremer
Country: Kenya
Sectors: Education
Themes: Big Picture, Participation
Focus: Policy and Practice

Group versus Individual Liability: Long Term Evidence from Philippine Microcredit Lending Groups

Date: May 2009
Authors: Xavier Giné, Dean Karlan
Country: Philippines
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Credit, Product Design
Focus: Research

Randomized Experiments in Microfinance

Date: May 2009
Authors: Jonathan Bauchet, Aparna Dalal
Country: Global
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Research Methodology
Focus: Methodology

Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on Microfinance Clients and Institutions

Date: May 2009
Authors: Dean Karlan, Martin Valdivia
Country: Peru
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Credit, Financial Literacy, Training

The miracle of microfinance? Evidence from a randomized evaluation

Date: May 2009
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, Cynthia Kinnan
Country: India
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Big Picture
Focus: Research

The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation

Date: May 2009
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, Cynthia Kinnan
Country: India
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Big Picture
Focus: Research

Transactional Sex as a Response to Risk

Date: May 2009
Authors: Jonathan Robinson, Ethan Yeh
Country: Kenya
Sectors: Health
Themes: Gender

From Violence to Voting: War and Political Participation in Uganda

Date: March 2009
Authors: Chris Blattman
Country: Uganda
Sectors: Community
Themes: Participation
Focus: Research

The Consequences of Child Soldiering

Date: March 2009
Authors: Chris Blattman, Jeannie Annan
Country: Uganda
Sectors: Community
Focus: Research

Highlighted Publications

Teacher Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from India

Date: September 2009
Authors: Karthik Muralidharan, Venkatesh Sundararaman

Access to Finance

Date: June 2009
Authors: Dean Karlan, Jonathan Morduch

Are Women More Credit Constrained? Experimental Evidence on Gender and Microenterprise Returns

Date: January 2009
Authors: David McKenzie, Suresh de Mel, Christopher Woodruff

The Experimental Approach to Economics

Date: September 2008
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo

The Illusion of Sustainability

Date: August 2007
Authors: Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel

Addressing Absence

Date: January 2006
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo