Borrowing decisions affect most households, with large stakes and implications for research
subfields as varied as macroeconomics and industrial organization. I review theoretical and …

Causal evidence on microcredit impacts informs theory, practice, and debates about its
effectiveness as a development tool. The six randomized evaluations in this volume use a …

The COVID-19 pandemic threatens lives and livelihoods, and, with that, has created
immediate challenges for institutions that serve affected communities. We focus on …

We use an RCT to analyze the impacts of microcredit. The study population consists of loan
applicants who were marginally rejected by an MFI in Bosnia. A random subset of these …

Weather is a key source of income risk, especially in emerging market economies. This
paper uses a randomized controlled trial involving Indian farmers to study how an innovative …

Standard measures of productivity display enormous dispersion across farms in Africa. Crop
yields and input intensities appear to vary greatly, seemingly in conflict with a model of …

The vast majority of the world's poor live in rural areas of developing countries with little
access to financial services. Setting up Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) has …

In Boundless Faith, the first book to look systematically at American Christianity in relation to
globalization, Robert Wuthnow shows that American Christianity is increasingly influenced …

Identifying high-growth microentrepreneurs in low-income countries remains a challenge
due to a scarcity of verifiable information. With a cash grant experiment in India we …

We use Bayesian meta-analysis methods to estimate the impact of unconditional cash
transfers (UCTs) on twelve primary outcomes from 114 studies of 72 UCT programs in …