Does Microfinance Work? Dr. Rachael Meager
Does microfinance work? How can we investigate it…
ROCKING OUR PRIORS · Dr Alice Evans
November 14, 201729m 59s
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Show Notes
Does microfinance work?
How can we investigate its impact?
What about pooling Randomised Control Trials?
Dr. Rachael Meager (Assistant Professor at the LSE) presents an innovative research methodology:
"Aggregating Distributional Treatment Effects: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of the Microcredit Literature".
You can read the full paper here: https://economics.mit.edu/files/12292