Group Lending with Heterogeneous Types

Li Gan (), Manuel Hernandez and Yanyan Liu ()

No 18847, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Group lending has been widely adopted in the past thirty years by many microfinance institutions as a means to mitigate information asymmetries when delivering credit to the poor. This paper proposes an empirical method to address the potential omitted variable problem resulting from unobserved group types when modeling the repayment behavior of group members. We estimate the model using a rich dataset from a group lending program in India. The estimation results support our model specification and show the advantages of relying on a type-varying method when analyzing the probability of default of group members.

JEL-codes: C35 O16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-02
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Published as Li Gan & Manuel A. Hernandez & Yanyan Liu, 2018. "GROUP LENDING WITH HETEROGENEOUS TYPES," Economic Inquiry, vol 56(2), pages 895-913.

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