A recent working paper by Harvard Pop Center Bell Fellow Natalia Rigol, PhD, along with faculty member Rohini Pande, PhD, is the subject of this post on Ideas for India that offers some explanations as to why previous studies have shown that female-operated enterprises in India and Sri Lanka have not benefited from access to grants and loans as much as male-operated businesses.
New Working Paper—Household Matters: Revisiting the Returns to Capital among Female Micro-entrepreneurs
Harvard Pop Center Bell Fellow Natalia Rigol, PhD, and faculty member Rohini Pande, PhD, are authors on a working paper that explores what may be influencing the apparent gender gap in microenterprise performance.
Do Meeting Frequency and Group Composition Affect Social Capital Gains Among Microfinance Clients?
Pop Center affiliated faculty member Rohini Pande, PhD, has co-authored a study, based on evidence from a randomized experiment in urban India, that examines, in particular, whether meeting frequency and group composition affect social capital.