The Impact of Microcredit Programs on Self-Employment Profits: Do Noncredit Program Aspects Matter?

By Signe-Mary Mckernan. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2002

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Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on Microfinance Clients and Institutions (2011, methodology): “This study used a structural approach to estimate the impact of credit services and assumed the residual impact to be due to the noncredit aspect of the program (McKernan, 2002).”
Microfinance in Northeast Thailand: Who Benefits and How Much? (2003, background): “2. Recent studies of note on microfinance impact, targeting, or both include Alexander (2001), Coleman (1999), Hashemi (1997), Hulme and Mosley (1996), Khandker (2005), McKernan (2002) , Montgomery (2005), Park and Ren (2001), Pitt and Khandker (1998), and Wydick (1999a, 1999b).”
Overcoming Selection Bias in Microcredit Impact Assessments: A Case Study in Peru (2008, methodology): “Others rely on large data sets across villages with and without credit services (Pitt and Khandker, 1998; McKernan, 2002) or of households interviewed in different time periods (Dunn and Arbuckle, 2001; Copestake et al.”
IS MICROCREDIT A BLESSING FOR THE POOR? A META-ANALYSIS (2015, result): “Surprisingly, while some studies present positive results of MC (Khandker, 2005; Khandker, Samad, & Khan, 1998; McKernan, 2002), several other studies have reported modest, or even a negative impact of MC on financial outcomes (Banerjee, Duflo, Glennerster, & Kinnan, 2009; Coleman, 1999; Stewart,…”