Group versus individual liability: Short and long term evidence from Philippine microcredit lending groups

By X. Giné, Dean S. Karlan. 2014

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Information Systems, Urban Studies

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1. Maria Abascal
2. Heike Harmgart
3. O. Attanasio
4. Delia Baldassarri
5. B. Augsburg
6. E. Fitzsimons
7. Rachael Meager
8. Katja Kaufmann

Citations in the corpus

• Field experiments across the social sciences (2017, background): “Finally, scholars are exploring the limits of microcredit, questioning whether joint liability is preferable to individual lending (Attanasio et al. 2012, Giné & Karlan 2014).”
• The Impacts of Microfinance: Evidence from Joint-Liability Lending in Mongolia (2015, background): “Giné and Karlan (2014) examine the impact of joint liability on repayment through two experiments in the Philippines.3 They find that removing group liability, or introducing individual liability from scratch, did not affect repayment rates over the ensuing three years.”
• Site Selection Bias in Program Evaluation (2015, unknown): “For example, the RCTs summarized by Banerjee, Karlan, and Zinman (2015) study various effects on borrowers, while Gine and Karlan (2014) study how group vs. individual liability impacts default rates, Field and Pande (2008) study how repayment frequency affects default rates, and Field, Pande,…”