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| Rohini Pande
Roundtable on Development: poverty, corruption, fragmentation and conflict. Rohini Pande, July 13, 2013, Audio. "The Barcelona GSE Summer Forum is a series of independent workshops and policy events that cover the main fields of Economics. The objective of the Summer Forum is to bring top researchers from around the globe to Barcelona to debate the present and future of the frontier of knowledge in Economics..." …
| Rohini Pande
Repayment Flexibility Can Reduce Financial Stress: A Randomized Control Trial with Microfinance Clients in India, Rohini Pande, September 26, 2012, Paper, "Financial stress is widely believed to cause health problems. However, policies seeking to relieve financial stress by limiting debt levels of poor households may directly worsen their economic well-being. We evaluate an alternative policy – increasing the repayment flexibility of debt…
| Rohini Pande | Erica Field
Repayment Frequency and Default in Micro-Finance: Evidence from India, Erica Field, Rohini Pande, January 2008, Paper. "In stark contrast to bank debt contracts, most micro-finance con- tracts require that repayments start nearly immediately after loan disbursement and occur weekly thereafter. Even though economic theory suggests that a more flexible repayment schedule would benefit clients and potentially improve their repayment capacity, micro…