Microcredit Under the Microscope: What Have We Learned in the Past Two Decades, and What Do We Need to Know?

By Abhijit Banerjee. 2013

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management Information Systems

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Understanding the Impact of Microcredit Expansions: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of 7 Randomised Experiments (2015, unknown): “There are several efforts to aggregate evidence from the various microcredit studies in the form of review articles, such as Banerjee (2013) or Banerjee et al (2015a).”
Generating Employment in Poor and Fragile States: Evidence from Labor Market and Entrepreneurship Programs (2015, background): “Also see Banerjee and Duflo (2011) for a broader review of the evidence on returns to capital. 49An exception is Nathan Fiala (2015), who experiments with capital (either loans or grants) and training with existing business owners in northern Uganda.”
Generic Machine Learning Inference on Heterogenous Treatment Effects in Randomized Experiments (2017, unknown): “9See [11] for a summary of the recent literature”
Six Randomized Evaluations of Microcredit: Introduction and Further Steps † (2015, background): “Reassuringly, these echo the conclusions in a previous survey which covers a number of studies not in this issue (Banerjee 2013).”
Impact of Village Savings and Loan Associations: Evidence from a cluster randomized trial (2016, background): “Unlike other types of micro ﬁ nance for which several randomized impact studies have been made showing limited effects (see Banerjee (2013) for a review of micro ﬁ nance, and Banerjee et al. (2015c) for a review of microcredit), rigorous impact evaluations of VSLAs that address endogenous program…”
Exporting and Firm Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment (2017, unknown): “The substantial increase in profits is perhaps not surprising given that firms were provided with a positive demand shock, but is interesting given the more moderate profit impacts the literature has found when exploring supply-side interventions such as credit access (Banerjee 2013).”
The Persistent Power of Behavioral Change: Long-Run Impacts of Temporary Savings Subsidies for the Poor (2018, background): “Unfortunately evidence from a recent crop of randomized evaluations suggests that microfinance has limited impacts on business income, especially for small-scale entrepreneurs (see Banerjee (2013) for a review).”