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| Title |
Repayment Flexibility Can Reduce Financial Stress: A Randomized Control Trial with Microfinance Clients in India
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, September 2012
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0045679 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Erica Field, Rohini Pande, John Papp, Y. Jeanette Park |
| Abstract |
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 contracts. A field experiment randomly assigned microfinance clients to a monthly or a traditional weekly installment schedule (N=200). We used cell phones to gather survey data on income, expenditure, and financial stress every 48 hours over seven weeks. Clients repaying monthly were 51 percent less likely to report feeling "worried, tense, or anxious" about repaying, were 54 percent more likely to report feeling confident about repaying, and reported spending less time thinking about their loan compared to weekly clients. Monthly clients also reported higher business investment and income, suggesting that the flexibility encouraged them to invest their loans more profitably, which ultimately reduced financial stress. |
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The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 9 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 33% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 11% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 11% |
| Portugal | 1 | 11% |
| Singapore | 1 | 11% |
| Colombia | 1 | 11% |
| Unknown | 1 | 11% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 8 | 89% |
| Scientists | 1 | 11% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 141 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 138 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 32 | 23% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 23 | 16% |
| Researcher | 19 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 13 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 4% |
| Other | 26 | 18% |
| Unknown | 22 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 34 | 24% |
| Social Sciences | 18 | 13% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 17 | 12% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 10 | 7% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 7 | 5% |
| Other | 28 | 20% |
| Unknown | 27 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 August 2015.
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#4,632,138
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#63,105
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#34,009
of 171,752 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#990
of 4,420 outputs
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