Natalia Rigol

Natalia Rigol is Assistant Professor at the Harvard Business School. She studies the design, targetting, and delivery of financial products to the world’s poorest people, with a particular focus on financial inclusion for women. Currently, Natalia is researching the interaction between financial inclusion and corruption, the role of intra-household bargaining in resource allocation decisions among entrepreneurs in the household, and the effect of caste norms on female labour force participation. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Long Run-Effects of Repayment Flexibility in Microfinance: Evidence from India
Financiers across the world structure debt contracts to limit the risk of entrepreneurial lending. But debt structures that reduce risk may inhibit enterprise growth, especially among the poor.
