Publication
Jun 2009
This paper revisits the most noted studies on the impact of microcredit on households based on surveys fielded in Bangladesh in the 1990s. It demonstrates through a replication exercise that these studies’ evidence for impact is weak. The authors conclude that for non-experimental methods to retain a place in the program evaluator’s portfolio, the quality of the claimed natural experiments must be high and demonstrated.
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Author | David Roodman, Jonathan Morduch |
Series | CGD Working Papers |
Issue | 174 |
Publisher | Center for Global Development (CGD) |
Copyright | © 2009 Center for Global Development (CGD) |