Experimental Design for Flexible Microcredit Trials

Takashi Kurosaki ()
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Takashi Kurosaki: Hitotsubashi University

Chapter Chapter 5 in Seasonality and Microcredit, 2014, pp 55-70 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter explains the experimental design of the randomized controlled trials we conducted in northern Bangladesh to examine the impact of seasonality-adjusted flexible microcredit, targeting the ultra-poor. In addition to describing our experimental design, this chapter compares the means of the characteristics of sample villages and households across various treatment arms. It reveals that most observable characteristics prior to our intervention were very similar across treatment arms, indicating that randomization was properly implemented. Descriptive analysis of the baseline survey data also indicates that our sample households belong to the poorest section of the rural Bangladesh.

Keywords: Microcredit; Randomized controlled trial; Seasonality; Bangladesh (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-55010-5_5

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