Mark M Pitt

Biographic Data

ID1456148
NAMEMark M Pitt
GIVEN NAMESMark M
FAMILY NAMEPitt
SIGNATUREPITT M M
AFFILIATIONSJohn Brown University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS270
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
H-INDEX4

  • Response to ‘The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh

    Mark M PittARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2014

    The longer version of this paper is available as Pitt (2013 Pitt, M. M. (2013). “Re-Re-Reply to “The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh: Revisiting the Evidence” Retrieved from http://www.brown.edu/research/projects/pitt/ [Google Scholar]) at http://www.brown.edu/research/projects/pitt

  • Gunfight at the Not OK Corral

    Mark M PittARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2012

    The paper "High Noon for Microfinance Impact Evaluations" by Duvendack and Palmer-Jones replicates the papers of Chemin (2008) and Pitt and Khandker (1998) that estimate the impact of microfinance in Bangladesh. My paper replicates the Duvendack and Palmer-Jones replication and finds so many serious errors in their code and misrepresentations of the methods described in their paper that I conclude that their results are spurious and provide no ev…

  • Empowering Women with Micro Finance

    Mark M Pitt, Shahidur R Khandker et al.ARTICLEEconomic Development and Cultural…2006Cited by: 28References: 9

    This article examines the effects of men’s and women’s participation in micro credit programs on various indicators of women’s empowerment using data from a special survey carried out in rural Bangladesh. These credit programs are well suited to studying how gender‐specific resources alter intrahousehold allocations because they induce differential participation by gender through the requirement that only one adult member per household can partic…

  • Credit Programmes for the Poor and Seasonality in Rural Bangladesh

    Mark M Pitt, Shahidur R KhandkerARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2002

    This article examines the effect of group-based credit used to finance self-employment by landless households in Bangladesh on the seasonal pattern of household consumption and male and female labour supply. This credit can help smooth seasonal consumption by financing new productive activities whose income flows and time demands do not seasonally covary with the income generated by existing agricultural activities. The results, based upon 1991/9…

  • The impact of Group‐Based Credit Programs on Poor Households in Bangladesh

    Mark M Pitt, Shahidur R KhandkerARTICLEJournal of Political Economy1998Cited by: 193

    This paper estimates the impact of participation, by gender, in the Grameen Bank and two other group‐based micro credit programs in Bangladesh on labor supply, schooling, household expenditure, and assets. The empirical method uses a quasi‐experimental survey design to correct for the bias from unobserved individual and village‐level heterogencity. We find that program credit has a larger effect on the behavior of poor households in Bangladesh wh…

  • The Determinants and Consequences of the Placement of Government Programs in Indonesia

    Mark M Pitt, Mark R Rosenzweig et al.ARTICLEThe World Bank Economic Review1993

    Most estimates of the consequences of public programs rely on the cross-sectional association between region-specific programs and program outcomes. Such estimates assume that the spatial distribution of programs is random. This article reports estimates of the effects of public programs on basic human capital indicators and the biases in conventional cross-sectional estimates of program effects due to non-random program placement. The estimates …

  • Health and Nutrient Consumption Across and Within Farm Households

    Mark M Pitt, Mark R RosenzweigARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…1985

  • Equity, externalities and energy subsidies The case of kerosine in Indonesia

    Open AccessMark M PittARTICLEJournal of Development Economics1985Cited by: 10

  • Food Preferences and Nutrition in Rural Bangladesh

    Mark M PittARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…1983

    T HE dietary choice of households near subsistence levels of nutrient intake is one of obvious policy importance. In many countries, such as Bangladesh, national goals are set in terms of nutritional intake and there is heavy intervention in the markets for foods. However, little is known about the manner in which food preferences vary with food expenditure and nutrient intake. The design of efficient programs to aid nutritionally deficient house…

  • The measurement and sources of technical inefficiency in the Indonesian weaving industry

    Open AccessMark M Pitt, Lung‐fei Lee et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics1981Cited by: 39References: 4