Estimating microcredit impact with low take-up, contamination and inconsistent data. A replication study of Crépon, Devoto, Duflo, and Parienté (American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2015)

We replicate a flagship randomised control trial carried out in rural Morocco that showed substantial and significant impacts of microcredit on the assets, the outputs, the expenses and the profits of self-employment activities. The original results rely primarily on trimming, which is the exclusion...

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Main Authors: Florent Bédécarrats, Isabelle Guérin, Solène Morvant-Roux, François Roubaud
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: ZBW 2019-03-01
Series:International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics
Subjects:
rct
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.18718/81781.12