IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/spbchp/978-4-431-55010-5_5.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Experimental Design for Flexible Microcredit Trials

In: Seasonality and Microcredit

Author

Listed:
  • Takashi Kurosaki

    (Hitotsubashi University)

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.

Suggested Citation

  • Takashi Kurosaki, 2014. "Experimental Design for Flexible Microcredit Trials," SpringerBriefs in Economics, in: Abu S. Shonchoy (ed.), Seasonality and Microcredit, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 55-70, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:spbchp:978-4-431-55010-5_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-55010-5_5
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:spbchp:978-4-431-55010-5_5. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.