Latest Findings from Randomized Evaluations of Microfinance

This paper summarizes research findings from a new body of empirical evidence that uses randomized evaluations to compare how one group responds to access to specific new financial services against how a comparable group fares without those services. It goes back to the first studies that used this approach and summarizes a series of research studies presented at the October 2010 Microfinance Impact and Innovation Conference in New York.