Microfinance institutions have started to bundle their basic loans with other financial
services, such as health insurance. Using a randomized control trial in Karnataka, India, we …

Randomized controlled trials have found only modest effects of microfinance, but these
studies focus on new clients. Existing estimates may thus understate ongoing gains for more …

Health shocks are among the most important unprotected risks for microfinance clients, but
take-up of micro health insurance remains low. A framed field experiment with credit groups …

If you listen to the strongest pitches for microfinance, you would imagine that everyone
offered microfinance would leap at the chance to be a customer. Yet this is not so. Evidence …

We examine the impact of Micro Health Insurance placement on health awareness,
healthcare utilization, and health status of microcredit members in rural Bangladesh, using …

The aggregate number of borrowers served by microfinance institutions (MFIs) reporting to
MIX Market grew 21 percent per year on average in the 2003-2008 period, while the loan …

There is a rising tide of microfinance institutions (MFIs) wanting to develop insurance
products for the low income market. Insurance is a risky business that, in many developed …

We evaluate effectiveness of microfinance using Propensity Score Matching (PSM) method
applied to data collected in a recent randomized control trial. This method allows us to …

To reduce the burden of health expenditures in developing countries, health-insurance
schemes have become popular and now feature prominently in poverty-reduction strategies …

Recently, microfinance has come under increasing criticism raising questions of the validity
of iconic studies which have justified it, such as Pitt and Khandker. Chemin applied …