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- Title
Preferences over Bank and Family Loans in Rural Rwanda.
- Authors
Peters, Jörg; Schoofs, Annekathrin; Sievert, Maximiliane
- Abstract
We study borrowers' preferences over bank and family loans based on field work undertaken in rural Rwanda. We randomly assigned willingness-to-pay questions for a hypothetical loan offer either by a bank or by a family member to a sample of 480 households. Informal family loans are typically easier to access. Because of the social costs they imply, it is widely believed that family finance is less attractive than formal finance. Our empirical results, however, show no significant difference in preferences over these two choices. This suggests that even if formal credits were widely accessible, people would still also utilize informal finance. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
RWANDA; BANKING industry; FAMILY loans; RURAL development; CREDIT
- Publication
Journal of International Development, 2016, Vol 28, Issue 4, p623
- ISSN
0954-1748
- Publication type
Other
- DOI
10.1002/jid.3217