Longer-Term Economic Impacts of Self-Help Groups in India
31 Pages Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Date Written: March 1, 2009
Abstract
Despite the popularity and unique nature of women's self-help groups in India, evidence of their economic impacts is scant. Based on two rounds of a 2,400 household panel, the authors use double differences, propensity score matching, and pipeline comparison to assess economic impacts of longer (2.5-3 years) exposure of a program that promoted and strengthened self-help programs in Andhra Pradesh in India. The analysis finds that longer program exposure has positive impacts on consumption, nutritional intake, and asset accumulation. Investigating heterogeneity of the impacts suggests that even the poorest households were able to benefit from the program. Furthermore, overall benefits would exceed program cost by a significant margin even under conservative assumptions.
Keywords: Access to Finance, Rural Poverty Reduction, Poverty Monitoring & Analysis, Debt Markets
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Do you have negative results from your research you’d like to share?
Recommended Papers
-
Characterizing Selection Bias Using Experimental Data
By James J. Heckman, Hidehiko Ichimura, ...
-
Propensity Score Matching Methods for Non-Experimental Causal Studies
By Rajeev H. Dehejia and Sadek Wahba
-
Propensity Score Matching Methods for Non-Experimental Causal Studies
By Rajeev H. Dehejia and Sadek Wahba
-
Using the Longitudinal Structure of Earnings to Estimate the Effect of Training Programs
By Orley Ashenfelter and David Card
-
Causal Effects in Non-Experimental Studies: Re-Evaluating the Evaluation of Training Programs
By Rajeev H. Dehejia and Sadek Wahba
-
Nonparametric Estimation of Average Treatment Effects Under Exogeneity: A Review
-
The Role of the Propensity Score in Estimating Dose-Response Functions
-
Does Matching Overcome Lalonde's Critique of Nonexperimental Estimators?
By Jeffrey A. Smith and Petra Todd