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Dvara open Online Repository

The Household Finance Research Initiative at Dvara is launching the Dvara Open Online Repository (DOOR) to provide a single location to access publicly available household finance data in India. It is a carefully curated catalogue of datasets which are a product of various research efforts testing different hypotheses by studying household-level financial decision making. It aims to bridge the gap between researchers and data, by compiling publicly available survey data and making it available through a single user interface. This compiled data will have a wide range of applications throughout the community, both in academic and non-academic circles.

The Dvara Open Online Repository takes the form of a searchable list of datasets. The datasets are listed according to the publications that they were used in, and the authors that collected them. Datasets have been assigned keywords, which are a combination of keywords relating to the content of the paper as well as the variables held within the datasets. Each dataset is downloadable as a .zip file, which contains:

A README file to help the user get started on working with the data
A documentation file that gives the user information specific to the data and its initial intended uses
The data in .csv and .dta formats
The original questionnaires for the survey data (if they are available)

Dvara open Online Repository

Datasets	Column Category from EGM	Keywords	Download
“When Is Microcredit Unsuitable? Guidelines using primary evidence from low-income households in India”, Prathap (2016)	Over-Indebtedness	Microcredit, Suitability, JLG, Earned Income, Cash Transfers	Link
“Pay, Peek, Punish ? Repayment, Information Acquisition and Punishment in a microcredit lab-in-the-field experiment.”, Czura (2015)	Delinquency	Game Theory, Peer Pressure, Repayment	Link
“The economic returns to social interaction: Experimental evidence from microfinance.”, Pande (2013)	Delinquency	Microfinance, Social Interaction, Loan Cycle, Repayment, Default	Link
“Do traditional institutions constrain female entrepreneurship? A field experiment on business training in India.”, Field (2010)	HH Borrowing	Female Entrepreneurship, Institutions, Business Training, Financial Literacy	Link
“The diffusion of microfinance.”, Banerjee (2013)	HH Borrowing	Microfinance, Diffusion, Social Networks, Peer Effects	Link
“Six randomized evaluations of microcredit: Introduction and further steps.”, Karlan (2015)	HH Borrowing	Household Saving, Banks, Government Policy, Human Resources, Financial Markets, Financial Economics, Consumer Economics	Link
“Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India”, Chattopadhyay (2004)	Gender, Policy	Gender, Decentralization, Afﬁrmative Action, Political Economy	Link
“Dynamics of Demand for Index Insurance: Evidence from a Long-Run Field Experiment.”, Cole (2014)	Insurance	Rainfall, Insurance, Liquidity, Trust, Risk Management, Income	Link
“The ABCs of financial education: experimental evidence on attitudes, behavior, and cognitive biases.”, Carpena (2015)	Customer Financial Education	Financial Literacy, Financial Behaviour, Cognitive Bias, Low Income Households	Link
“Repayment Frequency and Default in Microfinance: Evidence from India.”, Field (2008)	Loan Design	Microcredit, Repayment, Loan default, Client Behaviour	Link

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