Chakravarty, Sugato; Iqbal, S. M. Zahid; Shahriar, Abu … - Department of Consumer Sciences and Retailing, Purdue … - 2013
We use controlled experiments to identify the proximal causes of gender differences in the repayment of microcredit. We recruit male and female subjects from a patriarchal and a matrilineal community in Bangladesh, who live in the same villages, and find that the female subjects have a greater...