Evaluating Program Impacts on Mature Self-help Groups in India

Evaluating Program Impacts on Mature Self-help Groups in India

Despite the popularity and the unique nature of women's self-help groups in India, evidence on the economic impact of these groups is scant. On the basis of two rounds of surveys of 2,517 households, we use a strategy of double differences and propensity score matching to assess the economic ef...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Deininger, Klaus, Liu, Yanyan
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2014
Subjects:
capacity building
control groups
counterfactual
descriptive statistics
DPIP
household surveys
income
intervention
land ownership
livelihoods
program effects
program impacts
program interventions
selection bias
SHG
targeting
transparency
treatment groups
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21008

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http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21008

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