Credit Program Participation and Decline in Violence: Does Self-Selection Matter?
Abstract
Studies on the effects of gendered policy design in microcredit on spousal violence generally suffer from self-selection and under-reporting bias. I overcome such shortcomings by constructing a new measure of violence. the new measure indicates whether there was a decline in violence by subtracting current-experience of violence from ever-experience. Such differencing eliminates time-invariant sources of bias. Further, sensitivity of the effect of female membership to self-selection is examined by gauging the size of self-selection based on selection on the observables. Once self-selection is addressed, the initial positive effect of membership on violence reduction disappears. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
Recommended Citation
Chin, Y. (2012). Credit Program Participation and Decline in Violence: Does Self-Selection Matter?. World Development, 40(8), pp. 1690-1699. Elsevier.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.04.003
Department(s)
Economics
Keywords and Phrases
Bangladesh; Microcredit; Self-selection; South Asia; Spousal violence
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
0305-750X
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2024 Elsevier, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
01 Aug 2012
