Title: Replication Data for: The Impacts of Microfinance: Evidence from Joint-Liability Lending in Mongolia

Type Dataset Attanasio, Orazio, Augsburg, Britta, De Haas, Ralph, Fitzsimons, Emla, Harmgart, Heike (2018): Replication Data for: The Impacts of Microfinance: Evidence from Joint-Liability Lending in Mongolia. Harvard Dataverse. Dataset. https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/CMUPCH

Authors: Attanasio, Orazio (University College London and Institute for Fiscal Studies) ; Augsburg, Britta (Institute for Fiscal Studies) ; De Haas, Ralph (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) ; Fitzsimons, Emla (Centre for Longitudinal Studies, University College London) ; Harmgart, Heike (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) ; Attanasio, Orazio (University College London and Institute for Fiscal Studies) ; Augsburg, Britta (Institute for Fiscal Studies) ; De Haas, Ralph (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) ; Fitzsimons, Emla (Centre for Longitudinal Studies, University College London) ; Harmgart, Heike (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) ;

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Summary

We present evidence from a randomized field experiment in rural Mongolia to assess the poverty impacts of a joint-liability microcredit program targeted at women. We find a positive impact of access to group loans on female entrepreneurship and household food consumption but not on total working hours or income in the household. A simultaneously introduced individual-liability microcredit program delivers no significant poverty impacts. Additional results on informal transfers to families and friends suggest that joint liability may deter borrowers from using loans for noninvestment purposes with stronger impacts as a result. We find no difference in repayment rates between both types of microcredit.

More information

• DOI: 10.7910/DVN/CMUPCH

Subjects

• Social Sciences
• CESSDA: Employment

Dates

• Publication date: 2018
• Submitted: July 09, 2018
• Updated: July 26, 2022

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Rights

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

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electronic resource

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