Interest in entrepreneurs' mental health and well-being (MWB) is growing in recognition of
the role of MWB in entrepreneurs' decision making, motivation, and action. Yet relevant …

Access to credit may have a direct effect on achieving United Nations (UN) Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) in ending poverty, improving health and education, and …

Many policies attempt to help extremely poor households build sustainable sources of
income. Although economic interventions have predominated historically,, psychosocial …

Mobile money, a service that allows monetary value to be stored on a mobile phone and
sent to other users via text messages, has been adopted by the vast majority of Kenyan …

Developing country lenders are taking advantage of fintech tools to create fully digital loans
on mobile phones. Using administrative and survey data, we study the take up and impacts …

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 …

In developing countries, informal firms account for up to half of economic activity. They
provide livelihood for billions of people. Yet their role in economic development remains …

Despite evidence from multiple randomized evaluations of microcredit, questions about
external validity have impeded consensus on the results. I jointly estimate the average effect …

The role and relevance of gender in financial inclusion has been an evolving area of
research in recent times. Although there are several cross-country studies on this aspect …

We examine the challenges of governance facing organizations that pursue a social mission
through the use of market mechanisms. These hybrid organizations, often referred to as …