When is capital enough to get female microenterprises growing? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana.
We randomly gave cash and in-kind grants to male and female-owned microenterprises in urban Ghana. We find two striking results which contrast with a similar experiment in Sri Lanka. First, we find large average treatment effects of the in-kind grants for both female and male-owned enterprises. Howe...
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Format: | Working paper |
Language: | English |
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CSAE (University of Oxford)
2011
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