Sarah Pearlman
Assistant Professor of Economics
Vassar College


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RESEARCH

WORKING PAPERS

Too Vulnerable For Microfinance? Risk and Vulernability as Determinants of Microfinance Selection.
[PAPER]

Do Low Returns to Capital Explain Low Formal Credit Use? Evidence from Ecuador. [PAPER]

Ethnic Concentration and Immigrant Bank Use (joint with Sarah Bohn).  [PAPER]  under review

Flexibility Matters: Do More Rigid Loan Contracts Reduce Demand for Microfinance Loans? [PAPER],
 background paper for CAF's 2011 Reporte de Economia y Desarrollo (RED) 


WORK IN PROGRESS

Crime, Informality and Microenterprise Growth: Evidence from Mexico (joint with Ariel Ben-Yishay)

Determinants of Microfinance Dropout, Evidence from Zimbabwe.  Joint with Masahiro Shoji


OTHER

A Goldsmith Game for Learning Money Creation [PAPER]


Contact Information:
124 Raymond Avenue, Box 497
Poughkeepsie, NY 12603

Office: Blodgett 134A
Phone: 845-437-5212
Email: sapearlman@vassar.edu