Hope as Aspirations, Agency, and Pathways: Poverty Dynamics and Microfinance in Oaxaca, Mexico

We thank Chris Barrett, Paolo Carozza, Alessandra Cassar, Paul Glewwe, Phillip Ross, and Laine Rutledge, seminar participants at the University of California at Davis, San Jose State University, University of Gothenberg, University of Notre Dame, Hope College, the University of California at Berkeley, and seminar participants at the 2016 Pacific Conference for Development Economics at Stanford University for helpful conversations and comments related to this research. Funding from the University of Notre Dame, The University of San Francisco, and The University of California at Davis is gratefully acknowledged. This RCT was registered in the American Economic Association Registry for randomized control trials under Trial number AEARCTR-0000721. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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