|
View: |
Part 1: Document Description
|
|
Citation |
|
|---|---|
|
Title: |
The Diffusion of Microfinance |
|
Identification Number: |
doi:10.7910/DVN/U3BIHX |
|
Distributor: |
Harvard Dataverse |
|
Date of Distribution: |
2013-05-22 |
|
Version: |
9 |
|
Bibliographic Citation: |
Banerjee, Abhijit; Chandrasekhar, Arun G.; Duflo, Esther; Jackson, Matthew O., 2013, "The Diffusion of Microfinance", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/U3BIHX, Harvard Dataverse, V9 |
|
Citation |
|
|
Title: |
The Diffusion of Microfinance |
|
Identification Number: |
doi:10.7910/DVN/U3BIHX |
|
Authoring Entity: |
Banerjee, Abhijit (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
|
Chandrasekhar, Arun G. (Stanford University) |
|
|
Duflo, Esther (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
|
|
Jackson, Matthew O. (Stanford University) |
|
|
Distributor: |
Harvard Dataverse |
|
Distributor: |
Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab |
|
Access Authority: |
Banerjee, Abhijit |
|
Access Authority: |
Chandrasekhar, Arun G. |
|
Access Authority: |
Duflo, Esther |
|
Access Authority: |
Jackson, Matthew O. |
|
Date of Deposit: |
2013-05-22 |
|
Date of Distribution: |
2013-05-22 |
|
Holdings Information: |
https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/U3BIHX |
|
Study Scope |
|
|
Keywords: |
Social Sciences |
|
Abstract: |
We examine how participation in a microfinance program diffuses through social networks. We collected detailed demographic and social network data in 43 villages in South India before microfinance was introduced in those villages and then tracked eventual participation. We exploit exogenous variation in the importance (in a network sense) of the people who were first informed about the program, "the injection points". Microfinance participation is higher when the injection points have higher eigenvector centrality. We estimate structural models of diffusion that allow us to (i) determine the relative roles of basic information transmission versus other forms of peer influence, and (ii) distinguish information passing by participants and non-participants. We find that participants are significantly more likely to pass information on to friends and acquaintances than informed non-participants, but that information passing by non-participants is still substantial and significant, accounting for roughly a third of informedness and participation. We also find that, conditioned on being informed, an individual's decision is not significantly affected by the participation of her acquaintances. |
|
Geographic Coverage: |
rural southern Karnataka |
|
Methodology and Processing |
|
|
Sources Statement |
|
|
Data Access |
|
|
Notes: |
<a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0">CC0 1.0</a> |
|
Other Study Description Materials |
|
|
Related Publications |
|
|
Citation |
|
|
Title: |
Abhijit Banerjee, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Esther Duflo, and Matthew O. Jackson. "The Diffusion of Microfinance" Science 26 July 2013: 341 (6144), 1236498. |
|
Identification Number: |
10.1126/science.1236498 |
|
Bibliographic Citation: |
Abhijit Banerjee, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Esther Duflo, and Matthew O. Jackson. "The Diffusion of Microfinance" Science 26 July 2013: 341 (6144), 1236498. |
|
Label: |
datav4.0.zip |
|
Text: |
Data, Code, Instruments |
|
Notes: |
application/zip |