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Formal Rainfall Insurance for the Informally Insured in India

Mushfiq Mobarak
Mark Rosenzweig
Researchers evaluated how informal insurance within Indian sub-castes affects the demand for formal rainfall insurance, and subsequent risk-taking among households employed in agriculture. Informal insurance both increased and decreased the demand for formal rainfall insurance, depending on the...
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Incentives to Save in Ghana

Gharad Bryan
Margaret McConnell
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Relationship Banking in India

Antoinette Schoar
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The Effect of Social Pressure on Individuals’ Financial Decisions in Central Malawi

Jessica Goldberg

Providing Free Bank Accounts in Chile, Malawi, and Uganda

Pascaline Dupas
Dean Karlan
Jonathan Robinson
Diego Ubfal
Researchers partnered with banks in three countries to see if removing the costs to opening basic bank accounts would lead to more households opening and using bank accounts. Overall, use of the accounts was low across all three countries, and being offered a free, basic bank account had no impact...
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Assessing the Impact of Microcredit in Ethiopia

Jaikishan Desai
Kristin Johnson
Alessandro Tarozzi
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Charitable Giving by Corporations and Aristocrats in Germany

Vittorio Bassi
Steffen Huck
Imran Rasul
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The Impact of a Women-Specific Credit Scoring Model on Women’s Access to Credit in the Dominican Republic

Laura Chioda
Paul Gertler
Sean Higgins
Researchers are partnering with a bank and a mobile money operator in the Dominican Republic to evaluate the impact of credit scoring models designed specifically for women on access to credit.