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Microfinance Games

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

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

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

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

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

The Use and Misuse of Computers in Education: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Language Arts Program

Date: March 2009
Authors: Leigh Linden, Felipe Barrera-Osorio
Country: Colombia
Sectors: Education
Themes: Technology Adoption
Focus: Research

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

Date: January 2009
Authors: David McKenzie, Suresh de Mel, Christopher Woodruff
Country: Sri Lanka
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Credit, Gender
Focus: Research

Measuring Microenterprise Profits: Must we ask how the sausage is made?

Date: January 2009
Authors: David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff, Suresh de Mel
Country: Sri Lanka
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Financial Literacy, Research Methodology
Focus: Research

Savings Policy and Decision-Making in Low-Income Households

Date: January 2009
Authors: Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Behavioral Economics, Savings
Focus: Research

Financial Literacy, Information and Demand Elasticity: Survey and Experimental Evidence from Mexico

Date: December 2008
Authors: Justine Hastings, Lydia Tejeda-Ashton
Country: Mexico
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Financial Literacy
Focus: Research

How Important is Selection? Experimental Vs Non-experimental Measures of the Income Gains from Migration

Date: December 2008
Authors: David McKenzie, John Gibson, Steven Stillman
Country: Tonga
Themes: Research Methodology
Focus: Research

Observing Unobservables: Identifying Information Asymmetries with a Consumer Credit Field Experiment

Date: December 2008
Authors: Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman
Country: South Africa
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Product Design
Focus: Research

Put Your Money Where Your Butt Is: A Commitment Contract for Smoking Cessation

Date: December 2008
Authors: Xavier Giné, Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman
Country: Philippines
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Commitment Devices
Focus: Research

The First of the Month Effect: Consumer Behavior and Store Responses

Date: December 2008
Authors: Justine Hastings, Ebonya Washington
Country: United States
Focus: Research

Peer Effects and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya

Date: November 2008
Authors: Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, Michael Kremer
Country: Kenya
Sectors: Education
Focus: Research

Returns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Date: November 2008
Authors: David McKenzie, Suresh de Mel, Christopher Woodruff
Country: Sri Lanka
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Credit
Focus: Research

Highlighted Publications

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 Illusion of Sustainability

Date: August 2007
Authors: Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel

Addressing Absence

Date: January 2006
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo