http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/3477/sam-thompson Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:35:22 -0400 Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:35:22 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1392/dont-fear-the-reaper-analyzing-the-effect-of-health-on-microfinance-participation By Sam Thompson - The randomized introduction of microfinance to neighborhoods surrounding Hyderabad, India provides an opportunity to analyze the relationship between health and an individual's decision to borrow. Employing the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab's data from the aforementioned randomized controlled trial (RCT), I find that healthy individuals (those who lose fewer than 15 working days a year to illness) are significantly more likely to participate in microfinance. Accounting for intra-neighborhood correlation, however, the inclusion of clustered standard errors reduces the significance of said... Tue, 15 Apr 2014 12:00 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1392/dont-fear-the-reaper-analyzing-the-effect-of-health-on-microfinance-participation