Access to microfinance and female labour force participation

M Asadullah, Nudrat Faria Shreya and Zaki Wahhaj

No wp-2021-30, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Although microfinance started as a movement to improve women's economic well-being through increased female entrepreneurship in particular, its impact on women's attitudes toward and participation in the labour market is not fully understood. We fill this gap by combining data on branch locations of the major microfinance institutions in Bangladesh with household survey data and implement a spatial regression discontinuity design.

Keywords: Microfinance; female entrepreneurship; Wellbeing; Gender norms; Regression discontinuity; Bangladesh (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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