"The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh: Revisiting the Evidence," by David Roodman and Jonathan Morduch (2011) is the most recent of a sequence of papers and postings that seeks to refute the findings of the Pitt and Khandker (1998) article "The Impact of Group-Based Credit on Poor Households in Bangladesh: Does the Gender of Participants Matter?" that microcredit for women had significant, favorable effects on poverty reduction. In...
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2012/11/01
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS6273
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2012/11/01
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Disclosed
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Replicating replication : due diligence in Roodman and Morduch's replication of Pitt and Khandker (1998)
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maximum likelihood