On the Impact of Microcredit: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Rural Ethiopia

Jaikishan Desai, Kristin Johnson and Alessandro Tarozzi

No 741, Working Papers from Barcelona School of Economics

Abstract: We use data from a randomized controlled trial conducted in 2003-2006 in rural Amhara and Oromiya (Ethiopia) to study the impacts of the introduction of micro finance in treated communities. We document that borrowing increased substantially in locations where the programs started their operations, but we find mixed evidence of improvements in a number of socio-economic outcomes, including income from agriculture, animal husbandry, non-farm self-employment, schooling and indicators of women's empowerment.

Keywords: microcredit; cluster randomized controlled trial; Ethiopia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O12 O16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-09
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