Low and middle income countries

Although microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending towards individual lending, this strategic shift is not substantiated by sufficient empirical evidence on the impact of both types of lending on borrowers. We present such evidence from a randomised field experiment in rural Mongolia.

NORFACE DP paper coauthored with E. Auriol

The FINISH project will test whether the use of microfinance for rural sanitation can be implemented at scale, in order to: accelerate access by the poor to demand-led sanitation, resulting in health, economic, and social impact; and greater sustainability in sanitation service delivery.

This paper presents the findings from two experiments designed to test the hypothesis that individuals' notions of distributive justice are associated with their economic status relative to others within their own society.

Co authored with Manuela Angelucci (Arizona) and Giacomo de Giorgi (Stanford)

This paper looks at how to design policy on informal labour markets.

This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005.

This study aims to estimate the impact of the 2008 Chilean pension reform on Chilean labour market participation.

FINISH - Financial Inclusion Improves Sanitation and Health - is a joint undertaking of a wide range of actors that came together to address the challenges of micro finance, insurance and sanitation and health.

FINISH - Financial Inclusion Improves Sanitation and Health - is a joint undertaking of a wide range of actors that came together to address the challenges of micro finance, insurance and sanitation and health.

This is the final paper of a study aimed at building capacity for the distributional analysis of tax reforms in Mexico and other similar middle‐income countries.

This paper lays out the methodological issues involved in finding the distributional impact of the tax changes in Mexica and describes the approach the authors will take in their analysis.

We examine the effect of large cash transfers on the consumption of food by poor households in rural Mexico.