Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review
Article Title
Abstract
This article highlights the effects particular features of microfinance programs have on childhood education. Using data from a South India household survey, the article examines how microfinance impacts schooling and literacy, how credit enters the household, and who brings it in. Regression results show that, in the case of direct bank-borrower credit delivery, it does not matter whether credit enters the household through the mother or the father. However, large differences occur when mothers obtain credit through women's groups. Analysis indicates that combined financial and social-group intermediation leads to higher educational inputs and outputs, mainly for girls. Individual interviewis with borrowers and interviews with women's groups suggest that changes in underlying allocative rules that are provoked by group membership could be explanatory for the results obtained.
Biography
Nathalie Holvoet is a lecturer and researcher at the Institute of Development Policy and Management, University of Antwerp. Her fields of interest are organizational and institutional aspects of aid policy and evaluation, and in particular gender and development and microfinance.
Section
Articles
Journal Title
Journal of Microfinance
Issue and Volume
6-2
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Holvoet, Nathalie
(2004)
"Impact of Microfinance Programs on Children's Education: Do the Gender of the Borrower and the Delivery Model Matter?,"
Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review: Vol. 6:
Iss.
2, Article 3.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/esr/vol6/iss2/3