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Microcredit impacts : evidence from a large-scale observational study in Brazil

Goldszmidt, Rafael ; Behr, Patrick ; Zucco, Cesar ; Lenz, Anna-Katharina ; Gonzalez, Lauro ; Valdivia, Martin

In: The european journal of development research, 2021, p. 27

This paper studies the impact of microcredit in Brazil. We use a propensity score matching on original primary data on business and personal outcomes to compare veteran clients of BNDES - Brazil’s largest government-owned development bank - to a matched sample of more recent clients. Based on administrative data as well as data from a survey of 2107 clients from the South and Northeast...

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Sex hormones and hypertension

Dubey, Raghvendra K. ; Oparil, Suzanne ; Imthurn, Bruno ; Jackson, Edwin K.

In: Cardiovascular Research, 2002, vol. 53, no. 3, p. 688-708

Université de Fribourg

Development of allocentric spatial memory abilities in children from 18 months to 5 years of age

Ribordy, Farfalla ; Jabès, Adeline ; Banta Lavenex, Pamela A. ; Lavenex, Pierre

In: Cognitive Psychology, 2013, vol. 66, no. 1, p. 1–29

Episodic memories for autobiographical events that happen in unique spatiotemporal contexts are central to defining who we are. Yet, before 2 years of age, children are unable to form or store episodic memories for recall later in life, a phenomenon known as infantile amnesia. Here, we studied the development of allocentric spatial memory, a fundamental component of episodic memory, in two...

Université de Fribourg

Spatial relational learning and memory abilities do not differ between men and women in a real-world, open-field environment

Banta Lavenex, Pamela A. ; Lavenex, Pierre

In: Behavioural Brain Research, 2010, vol. 207, no. 1, p. 125-137

This study assesses gender differences in spatial and non-spatial relational learning and memory in adult humans behaving freely in a real-world, open-field environment. In Experiment 1, we tested the use of proximal landmarks as conditional cues allowing subjects to predict the location of rewards hidden in one of two sets of three distinct locations. Subjects were tested in two different...