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Publications

Identification Strategy: A Field Experiment on Dynamic Incentives in Rural Credit Markets

Date: May 2010
Authors: Xavier Giné, Dean Karlan, Dean Yang, Jessica Goldberg
Country: Malawi
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Credit

Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

Date: May 2010
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Benjamin A. Olken, Vivi Alatas, Rema Hanna, Julia Tobias
Country: Indonesia
Themes: Transfers & Subsidies

Giving Credit Where it is Due

Date: March 2010
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Credit

Expanding Microenterprise Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts in Manila

Date: July 2009
Authors: Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman
Country: Philippines
Themes: Big Picture, Credit

Dean Karlan at USAID After Hours:"Microfinance: Learning what works, what doesn't, and why"

Date: April 2010
Authors: Dean Karlan
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Commitment Devices, Credit, Financial Literacy, Product Design, Savings

Getting to the Top of the Mind: How Reminders Increase Saving

Date: April 2010
Authors: Dean Karlan, Sendhil Mullainathan, Jonathan Zinman, Margaret McConnell
Country: Bolivia, Peru, Philippines
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Behavioral Economics, Product Design, Savings

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
Themes: Product Design
Focus: Research

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

Access to Finance

Date: June 2009
Authors: Dean Karlan, Jonathan Morduch
Themes: Big Picture, Insurance, Research Methodology, Savings
Focus: Policy and Practice

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

Highlighted Publications

Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

Date: May 2010
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Benjamin A. Olken, Vivi Alatas, Rema Hanna, Julia Tobias

Giving Credit Where it is Due

Date: March 2010
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo

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