American Economic Journal:
Applied Economics
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Growing Markets through Business Training for Female Entrepreneurs: A Market-Level Randomized Experiment in Kenya
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
vol. 13,
no. 2, April 2021
(pp. 297–332)
Abstract
A common concern with efforts to directly help some small businesses to grow is that their growth comes at the expense of their unassisted competitors. We test this possibility using a two-stage randomized experiment in Kenya that randomizes business training at the market level and then within markets to selected businesses. Three years after training, the treated businesses are selling more, earn higher profits, and their owners have higher well-being. Point estimates of the spillovers on the competing businesses are small and not statistically significant, and the markets as a whole have grown in terms of sales volume.Citation
McKenzie, David, and Susana Puerto. 2021. "Growing Markets through Business Training for Female Entrepreneurs: A Market-Level Randomized Experiment in Kenya." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 13 (2): 297–332. DOI: 10.1257/app.20180340Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- L25 Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope
- L26 Entrepreneurship
- L53 Enterprise Policy
- O14 Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology
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