Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; Morduch, Jonathan - Institut ekonomických studií, Univerzita Karlova v Praze - 2008
This paper draws a link between self-control problems and the contractual mechanisms of microcredit. We use a series of “lab experiments in the field” which were designed to elicit measures of time discounting on a sample of 573 individuals in rural Karnataka, India. Evidence from the...