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AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages 90-122Publisher
AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC
DOI: 10.1257/app.20130489
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- European Research Council [249612]
- European Research Council (ERC) [249612] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
- ESRC [ES/K010700/1, ES/H021221/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/H021221/1, ES/K010700/1, ES/G040923/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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We present evidence from a randomized field experiment in rural Mongolia to assess the poverty impacts of a joint-liability microcredit program targeted at women. We find a positive impact of access to group loans on female entrepreneurship and household food consumption but not on total working hours or income in the household. A simultaneously introduced individual-liability microcredit program delivers no significant poverty impacts. Additional results on informal transfers to families and friends suggest that joint liability may deter borrowers from using loans for noninvestment purposes with stronger impacts as a result. We find no difference in repayment rates between both types of microcredit.
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