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Impact of Credit: How to Measure Impact, and Improve Operations Too

Date: January 2008
Authors: Nathanael Goldberg, Dean Karlan
Country: Global
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Credit
Focus: Research

Incentives to Learn

Date: January 2008
Authors: Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel, Rebecca Thornton
Country: Kenya
Sectors: Education
Themes: Behavioral Economics
Focus: Research

Matching and Challenge Gifts to Charity: Evidence from Laboratory and Natural Field Experiments

Date: January 2008
Authors: John List, Daniel Rondeau
Country: United States
Sectors: Charitable Giving
Themes: Behavioral Economics
Focus: Research

Peer Monitoring and Enforcement: Long Term Evidence from Microcredit

Date: January 2008
Authors: Xavier Giné, Dean Karlan
Country: Global
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Credit
Focus: Research

Randomized Trials for Strategic Innovation in Retail Finance

Date: January 2008
Authors: Nathanael Goldberg, Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman
Country: Global
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Credit, Research Methodology
Focus: Research

To Deceive or Not to Deceive: Second-guessing the Experimenter in Experimental Economics

Date: January 2008
Authors: Julian Jamison, Dean Karlan, Laura Schechter
Country: Global
Themes: Research Methodology
Focus: Research

Use of Randomization in the Evaluation of Development Effectiveness

Date: January 2008
Authors: Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer
Country: Global
Themes: Research Methodology
Focus: Methodology

Cross Sectional Impact Analysis: Bias from Dropouts

Date: December 2007
Authors: Gwendolyn Alexander-Tedeschi, Dean Karlan
Country: Global
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Research Methodology
Focus: Research

Expanding Credit Access: Improving Microfinance Operations and Measuring Impact with Credit Scoring

Date: December 2007
Authors: Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman
Country: South Africa
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Credit
Focus: Research

Is Microfinance Too Rigid?

Date: December 2007
Authors: Dean Karlan, Sendhil Mullainathan
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Credit
Focus: Policy and Practice

Targeting Efficiency: How well can we identify the poor?

Date: December 2007
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Jeremy Shapiro
Country: India
Themes: Big Picture, Participation, Research Methodology, Transfers & Subsidies, Ultra Poor
Focus: Research

Lying About Borrowing

Date: November 2007
Authors: Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman
Country: South Africa
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Credit
Focus: Research

Lying About Borrowing

Date: November 2007
Authors: Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman
Country: South Africa
Themes: Credit

Moving to Opportunity, Leaving Behind What? Evaluating the Initial Effects of a Migration Policy on Incomes and Poverty in Source Areas

Date: November 2007
Authors: David McKenzie, John Gibson, Steven Stillman
Country: Tonga
Focus: Research

The Impact of Microfinance: A Review of Methodological Issues

Date: November 2007
Authors: Nathanael Goldberg, Dean Karlan
Country: Global
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Credit, Insurance, Savings, Training
Focus: Methodology

The Illusion of Sustainability

Date: August 2007
Authors: Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel
Country: Kenya
Sectors: Health
Focus: Research

The role of social connections in charitable fundraising: Evidence from a natural field experiment

Date: August 2007
Authors: John List, Michael K. Price
Country: United States
Sectors: Community, Charitable Giving
Themes: Marketing, Participation

Contracting for Health: Evidence from Cambodia

Date: July 2007
Authors: Michael Kremer, Erik Bloom, Elizabeth King, Indu Bhushan, David Clingingsmith, Benjamin Loevinsohn, Rathavuth Hong, J. Brad Schwartz
Country: Cambodia
Sectors: Health
Focus: Research

Credit Elasticities in Less-Developed Economies: Implications for Microfinance

Date: July 2007
Authors: Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman
Country: South Africa
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Credit
Focus: Research

Many Children Left Behind? Textbooks and Test Scores in Kenya

Date: July 2007
Authors: Michael Kremer, Paul Glewwe, Sylvie Moulin.
Country: Kenya
Sectors: Education
Focus: Research

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