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Does microfinance work?
How can we investigate its impact?
What about pooling Randomised Control Trials?

Dr. Rachael Meager (Assistant Professor at the LSE) presents an innovative research methodology:

"Aggregating Distributional Treatment Effects: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of the Microcredit Literature".

You can read the full paper here: https://economics.mit.edu/files/12292