DO POOR HOUSEHOLDS BENEFIT MORE FROM MICROFINANCE TARGETED TO WOMEN OR MEN? EVIDENCE FROM GHANA.
This paper estimates the impact of participation, by gender, in numerous microfinance institutions in Ghana on household outcomes such as non-food expenditure, number of non-land assets owned, children’s schooling, amount of savings accounts owned per household and lastly, the household nutrition in...
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| description | This paper estimates the impact of participation, by gender, in numerous microfinance institutions in Ghana on household outcomes such as non-food expenditure, number of non-land assets owned, children’s schooling, amount of savings accounts owned per household and lastly, the household nutrition intake. The empirical method used in this study is a Two-Stage Least Square model to correct for the bias and inconsistency in results caused by the endogeneity issue, which occurs when using only an Ordinary Least Square model. I find that program participation has larger impact on the household outcomes in Ghana when program participants are women rather than men and that participation in microcredit has larger impacts on better off households rather than worse-off households. |
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| spelling | nottingham-362752017-10-19T16:59:20Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36275/ DO POOR HOUSEHOLDS BENEFIT MORE FROM MICROFINANCE TARGETED TO WOMEN OR MEN? EVIDENCE FROM GHANA. Kabatova, Kristina This paper estimates the impact of participation, by gender, in numerous microfinance institutions in Ghana on household outcomes such as non-food expenditure, number of non-land assets owned, children’s schooling, amount of savings accounts owned per household and lastly, the household nutrition intake. The empirical method used in this study is a Two-Stage Least Square model to correct for the bias and inconsistency in results caused by the endogeneity issue, which occurs when using only an Ordinary Least Square model. I find that program participation has larger impact on the household outcomes in Ghana when program participants are women rather than men and that participation in microcredit has larger impacts on better off households rather than worse-off households. 2016-09-06 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36275/1/Kabatova_Kristina_Dissertation_2016.pdf Kabatova, Kristina (2016) DO POOR HOUSEHOLDS BENEFIT MORE FROM MICROFINANCE TARGETED TO WOMEN OR MEN? EVIDENCE FROM GHANA. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] |
| spellingShingle | Kabatova, Kristina DO POOR HOUSEHOLDS BENEFIT MORE FROM MICROFINANCE TARGETED TO WOMEN OR MEN? EVIDENCE FROM GHANA. |
| title | DO POOR HOUSEHOLDS BENEFIT MORE FROM MICROFINANCE TARGETED TO WOMEN OR MEN?
EVIDENCE FROM GHANA. |
| title_full | DO POOR HOUSEHOLDS BENEFIT MORE FROM MICROFINANCE TARGETED TO WOMEN OR MEN?
EVIDENCE FROM GHANA. |
| title_fullStr | DO POOR HOUSEHOLDS BENEFIT MORE FROM MICROFINANCE TARGETED TO WOMEN OR MEN?
EVIDENCE FROM GHANA. |
| title_full_unstemmed | DO POOR HOUSEHOLDS BENEFIT MORE FROM MICROFINANCE TARGETED TO WOMEN OR MEN?
EVIDENCE FROM GHANA. |
| title_short | DO POOR HOUSEHOLDS BENEFIT MORE FROM MICROFINANCE TARGETED TO WOMEN OR MEN?
EVIDENCE FROM GHANA. |
| title_sort | do poor households benefit more from microfinance targeted to women or men?
evidence from ghana. |
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