Credit Programs for the Poor and the Health Status of Children in Rural Bangladesh∗ by Mark M. Pitt,
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The impact of participation in group-based credit programs, by gender of participant, on the health status of children by gender in rural Bangladesh is investigated. These credit programs are well suited to studies of how genderspecific resources alter intra-household allocations because they induce differential participation by gender. Women’s credit is found to have a large and statistically significant impact on two of three measures of the healthiness of both boy and girl children. Credit provided to men has no statistically significant impact and the null hypothesis of equal credit effects by gender of participant is rejected.
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Credit Programs for the Poor and the Nutritional Status of Children in Rural Bangladesh
The impact of group-based credit programs on the nutritional status of children by gender in rural Bangladesh is evaluated. Lacking exclusion restrictions of the usual sort, the effect of credit program participation by gender of participant is identified by imposing a factor structure on the regression errors. Women’s credit is found to have a large and statistically significant impact on two ...
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