Purpose – The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the sheepskin effects in the returns to education in the Sri Lankan labor market by ethnicity. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on the latest Sri Lankan Consumer Finance and Socio-economic Survey. The study employs...

The study applied recent advances in propensity score matching methods to assess the impact of microfinance on household income and savings. Results suggest that overall programme participants’ benefit incidence is indeed pro-poor. With respect to both household per capita income and...