Documentos e informes
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Re-re-reply to "the impact of microcredit on the poor in Bangladesh : revisiting the evidence" (Inglés)
"The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh: Revisiting the Evidence," by David Roodman and Jonathan Morduch (2014) (henceforth RM) is the most recent of a sequence of papers and web postings...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS6801 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Pitt,Mark M.
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Subsidy to promote girls secondary education : the female stipend program in Bangladesh (Inglés)
The brief summarizes the subsidy to promote girls secondary education: the female stipend program in Bangladesh. The intervention started in 1994. Girl's grade 6-10 received the stipend once a year. Secondary...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 81464 Fecha del documento: 14 de agosto de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Khandker,Shahidur R.,Pitt,Mark M.,Fuwa,Nobuhiko
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Replicating replication : due diligence in Roodman and Morduch's replication of Pitt and Khandker (1998) (Inglés)
"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...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS6273 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Khandker,Shahidur R.,Pitt,Mark M.
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Use of the formal and informal financial sectors : does gender matter? empirical evidence from rural Bangladesh (Inglés)
Access to transfers and credit, whether cash or in-kind, is a major source of poverty alleviation and income generation in many developing countries around the world. Women may especially benefit from...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS3491 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2005 Autor: McKernan,Signe-Mary,Moskowitz, David,Pitt,Mark M.
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Does micro-credit empower women : evidence from Bangladesh (Inglés)
This paper examines the effects of men's and women's participation in group-based micro-credit programs on a large set of qualitative responses to questions that characterize women's autonomy and gender...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS2998 Fecha del documento: 31 de marzo de 2003 Autor: Pitt,Mark M.,Khandker,Shahidur R.,Cartwright, Jennifer
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Household and intrahousehold impact of the Grameen Bank and similar targeted credit programs in Bangladesh (Inglés)
Group-based lending programs for the poor have become a focus of attention in the development community over the last several years. This paper treats the choice of participating in credit programs in...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: WDP320 Fecha del documento: 31 de mayo de 1996 Autor: Pitt,Mark M.,Khandker,Shahidur R.
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Women's schooling, the selectivity of fertility, and child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa (Inglés)
This paper estimates the determinants of child mortality in the fourteen sub-Saharan countries for which Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) data are available. It differs radically from the usual approach...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: LSM119 Fecha del documento: 31 de agosto de 1995 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Pitt,Mark M.
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The determinants and consequences of the placement of government programs in Indonesia (Inglés)
Most estimates of the consequences of public programs rely on the cross-sectional association between region-specific programs and program outcomes. Such estimates assume that the spatial distribution...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 14075 Fecha del documento: 30 de septiembre de 1993 Autor: Pitt,Mark M.,Rosenzweig,Mark R.,Gibbons, Donna M.
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The selectivity of fertility and the determinants of human capital investments : parametric and semiparametric estimates (Inglés)
In this paper the authors assess the importance of heterogeneity and selective fertility in altering estimates and interpretations of the determinants of the human capital of children. The authors set...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: LSM72 Fecha del documento: 31 de agosto de 1990 Autor: Pitt,Mark M.,Rosenzweig,Mark R.