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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Main Authors: Fafchamps, M, McKenzie, D, Quinn, S, Woodruff, C
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: CSAE (University of Oxford) 2011