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Replication data for: Child Labor and Schooling Decisions among Self-Help Groups Members in Rural India
No full textThis paper investigates the impact of informal microfinance groups (SHGs) on children's education and work in rural India. In 2002, 24 eligible villages were randomly selected for opening SHGs and 12 other were randomly selected as control group. Households were surveyed three times over a five-year period, allowing the study of medium-term outcomes. We find a robust and strong increase in secondary school enrollment rates over time, with ITT estimates of about 40%. This effect stems from a quicker grade progression, leading to lower drop-out rates between primary and secondary school. Contrary to usual presumptions, we find no decrease in overall child labor (but a reorientation towards part-time domestic work) and no direct role of credit. By contrast, we show that social interactions within SHGs are very important
Replication data for: Child Labor and Schooling Decisions among Self-Help Groups Members in Rural India
No full textThis paper investigates the impact of informal microfinance groups (SHGs) on children's education and work in rural India. In 2002, 24 eligible villages were randomly selected for opening SHGs and 12 other were randomly selected as control group. Households were surveyed three times over a five-year period, allowing the study of medium-term outcomes. We find a robust and strong increase in secondary school enrollment rates over time, with ITT estimates of about 40%. This effect stems from a quicker grade progression, leading to lower drop-out rates between primary and secondary school. Contrary to usual presumptions, we find no decrease in overall child labor (but a reorientation towards part-time domestic work) and no direct role of credit. By contrast, we show that social interactions within SHGs are very important
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Coping with shocks: How Self-Help Groups impact food security and seasonal migration
No full textInternational audienceCombining seven years of household data from an original eld experiment in villages of Jharkand, East India, with meteorological data, this paper investigates how Indian Self-Help Groups (SHGs) enable households to withstand rainfall shocks. I show that SHGs operate remarkably well under large covariate shocks. While credit access dries up in control villages one year after a bad monsoon, reecting strong credit rationing from informal lenders, credit ows are counter-cyclical in treated villages. Treated households experience substantially higher food security during the lean season following a drought and increase their seasonal migration to mitigate expected income shocks. Credit access plays an important role, together with other SHG aspects such as peer networks. These ndings indicate that local self-help and nancial associations can help poor farmers to cope with climatic shocks and to implement risk management strategies
Overcoming constraints to agricultural innovation through the market: insights from the Peruvian Andes
Get PDFThis paper discusses possible ways to overcome the situation of physical
isolation and the multiple failures that pervade Andean villages. Specifically, it studies a training program developed by a Peruvian NGO, which aims at triggering the development of a market for agricultural services that reach the rural poor. First-hand data is used to identify the scope of the market so-created. It is then looked at determinants of successful intervention, through different indicators. The empirical tests developed show that training farmers as on-the-field consultants is a relevant strategy in the adverse environment under study, provided that the practical implementation is well designed and that some particular constraints are properly taken into account. In particular, training specialists on one relevant topic is much
more effective than training generalists. Hence, our results should be viewed as one building block in the debate over the design of successful innovative scagrarian extension in the context of isolation traps and cultural constraints
Microfinance spillovers: A model of competition in informal credit markets with an application to Indian villages
No full textACL-1International audienceDespite widespread interest in the development of microfinance, spillover effects on the non-using population and redistributive issues remain largely unexplored. I study a competition game between microfinance institutions (MFIs) offering joint-liability loans and moneylenders offering individual loans in presence of adverse selection. I show that one unintended consequence of the entry of a microfinance sector in local credit markets can be to trigger an increase in the equilibrium informal interest rate, because MFIs tend to attract a disproportionately-safe share of the borrower pool away from incumbent moneylenders. The existence of such composition externality depends crucially on the size of the microfinance sector and the risk composition of the borrower pool. The model predicts a non-linearly increasing relationship between informal interest rates and MFIs' capacity in relatively safe credit markets, and no relationship in risky villages. I show evidence supporting these predictions, using a first-hand panel database that records all credit transactions over 8 years for a sample of about 1000 households living in Indian villages with extensive space and time variation in the size of their microfinance sector
Coping with shocks: the impact of Self-Help Groups on migration and food security
No full textThis paper asks whether local savings and credit associations help poor rural households hit by climatic shocks. Combining data from an original field experiment with meteorological data, I investigate how Self-Help Groups (SHGs) allow households to cope with rainfall shocks in villages of East India over a sevenyear period. I show that SHGs withstand large rainfall shocks remarkably, and that credit flows are very stable in treated villages. As a result, treated households experience a higher food security during the lean season following a drought and increase seasonal migration to mitigate future income shocks. These results imply that small-scale financial institutions like SHGs help to finance temporary risk management strategies and to cope with important covariate income shocks such as droughts
Comparative analysis of two approaches to agricultural innovation: an experience study in Peruvian Andes
No full textCoping with shocks: the impact of Self-Help Groups on migration and food security
No full textThis paper asks whether local savings and credit associations help poor rural households hit by climatic shocks. Combining data from an original field experiment with meteorological data, I investigate how Self-Help Groups (SHGs) allow households to cope with rainfall shocks in villages of East India over a sevenyear period. I show that SHGs withstand large rainfall shocks remarkably, and that credit flows are very stable in treated villages. As a result, treated households experience a higher food security during the lean season following a drought and increase seasonal migration to mitigate future income shocks. These results imply that small-scale financial institutions like SHGs help to finance temporary risk management strategies and to cope with important covariate income shocks such as droughts
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