PhD dissertation in Economics: Microcredit and welfare of the rural households in Vietnam

In addition, one of the attributes of microcredit programs is that the target clients are women. Therefore, this research also investigates the role of gender in participation in microcredit. In particular, this research examines whether the female household heads can have better accessibility to microcredit sources than the male counterparts. This objective is conducted using models with binary dependent variable such as Probit or Logit.