Impact evaluation of microfinance on income, savings, and household living standards in the Philippines using a combination of propensity score matching and difference and difference

• Main Author: Leomo, Yuri Mejia
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2017
• Subjects: Microfinance—Philippines; Cost and standard of living—Philippines; Finance and Financial Management
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/11029
• Institution: De La Salle University

Microfinance has been used as a tool to reduce unemployment and poverty despite varying assessments of its impact. There is also a dearth of evidence on how microfinance impacts non-income measures of poverty such as household living standards. Using a combination of propensity score matching and di...