Title: Measuring the impact of microfinance in Hyderabad, India

Type Dataset Banerjee, Abhijit, Duflo, Esther, Glennerster, Rachel, Kinnan, Cynthia (2012): Measuring the impact of microfinance in Hyderabad, India. Harvard Dataverse. Dataset. https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/BQ7PFF

Authors: Banerjee, Abhijit (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ; Duflo, Esther (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ; Glennerster, Rachel (J-PAL Global) ; Kinnan, Cynthia (Northwestern University) ; IMFR Centre for Microfinance (CMF) ; Banerjee, Abhijit (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ; Duflo, Esther (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ; Glennerster, Rachel (J-PAL Global) ; Kinnan, Cynthia (Northwestern University) ; Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab and Centre for Microfinance ; MacArthur Data Consolidation Project ;

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Summary

This database provides information on 2,800 households living in slums in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (India's fifth largest city) in 2005. Information was collected on household composition, education, employment, asset ownership, decision-making, expenditure, borrowing, saving, and any businesses currently operated by the household or stopped within the last year. These data cover the same neighborhoods as the data for "The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation." The data and do files that replicate the tables and figures from the paper are hosted at IFMR Centre for Microfinance (CMF) data site (http://ifmrlead.org/impact-evaluation-of-spandanas-micro-credit-program/).

More information

• DOI: 10.7910/DVN/BQ7PFF

Subjects

• Social Sciences, spandana, microcredit, hyderabad

Dates

• Publication date: 2012
• Issued: December 29, 2012
• Submitted: April 26, 2008
• Updated: June 24, 2019
• Collected: 2005 to 2005

Notes

Rights

• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 CC0 1.0

Format

electronic resource

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