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Microfinance Banks and Household Access to Finance

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Appendix 3. Volume effect: Robustness checksThis table shows difference-in-difference estimates for account use (Account ) for the subsample of thosehouseholds that are not close <strong>to</strong> a ProCredit branch in 2006. <strong>Household</strong>s in 2006 are matched with households in2010 based on observables (ProCredit Bank close in 2006 (10km, 20km), Retail Bank close in 2006 (10km, 20km),Town close (10km, 20km), Low income, Informal income). St<strong>and</strong>ard errors <strong>and</strong> number of observations (N) arereported in brackets. ***, **, * denote significance at the 0.01, 0.05 <strong>and</strong> 0.10-level. Definition <strong>and</strong> sources of thevariables are provided in table 2.Panel A. Distance threshold: 10kmProCredit close in2010ProCredit not close in2010Difference inDifference (DiD)Retail Bank closeRetail Bank not close0.3464***(0.0374)(N=280)-0.1000(0.1000)(N=10)0.0776*(0.0448)(N=219)0.1141***(0.0228)(N=710)0.2688***(0.0579)(N=499)-0.2141(0.1926)(N=720)Panel B. Distance threshold: 20kmRetail Bank closeRetail Bank not closeProCredit close in20100.3156***(0.0330)(N=358)0.0000(0.2357)(N=9)ProCredit not close in20100.0000(0.0557)(N=123)0.0259(0.0361)(N=270)Difference inDifference (DiD)0.3156***(0.0650)(N=481)-0.0259(0.2024)(N=279)

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