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Small individual loans and mental health: a randomized controlled trial among South African adults

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, December 2008
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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Title
Small individual loans and mental health: a randomized controlled trial among South African adults
Published in
BMC Public Health, December 2008
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-8-409
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Authors

Lia CH Fernald, Rita Hamad, Dean Karlan, Emily J Ozer, Jonathan Zinman

Abstract

In the developing world, access to small, individual loans has been variously hailed as a poverty-alleviation tool - in the context of "microcredit" - but has also been criticized as "usury" and harmful to vulnerable borrowers. Prior studies have assessed effects of access to credit on traditional economic outcomes for poor borrowers, but effects on mental health have been largely ignored.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Unknown 185 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 34 18%
Student > Master 32 17%
Researcher 31 16%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 6%
Professor 9 5%
Other 38 20%
Unknown 34 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 33 17%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 31 16%
Psychology 28 15%
Medicine and Dentistry 26 14%
Business, Management and Accounting 8 4%
Other 19 10%
Unknown 44 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 March 2019.
All research outputs
#2,019,932
of 25,271,884 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#2,313
of 16,915 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,414
of 182,462 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#5
of 37 outputs
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