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Aspirations and Financial Decisions : Experimental Evidence from the Philippines
McKenzie, David J.; Mohpal, Aakash; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
A randomized experiment among poor entrepreneurs tested the impact of exogenously inducing higher financial aspirations …
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Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose : Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development
Karlan, Dean - 2012
catalyze adoption of investments and practices aimed towards enterprise growth. We find that entrepreneurs invest the cash, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460338
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Can Microfinance Unlock a Poverty Trap for Some Entrepreneurs?
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2019
, India, we find that "gung ho entrepreneurs" (GEs), households who were already running a business before microfinance … model of technology choice in which talented entrepreneurs can access either a diminishing-returns technology, or a more … entrepreneurial ability is important and persistent. For talented but low-wealth entrepreneurs, short-term access to credit can indeed …
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The Persistent Power of Behavioral Change : Long-Run Impacts of Temporary Savings Subsidies for the Poor
Schaner, Simone - 2016
I use a field experiment in rural Kenya to study how temporary incentives to save impact long-run economic outcomes. Study participants randomly selected to receive large temporary interest rates on an individual bank account had significantly more income and assets 2.5 years after the interest...
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Give Me a Pass : Flexible Credit for Entrepreneurs in Colombia
Brune, Lasse; Giné, Xavier; Karlan, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Microcredit promised business growth for small firms lacking access to banking loans. Yet while reaching millions, recent randomized evaluations suggest limited average business impacts. Critics often blame contract rigidity, specifically the fixed and frequent installments, for the lack of...
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What Predicts the Growth of Small Firms?$bEvidence from Tanzanian Commercial Loan Data
Ellis, Mia; Kinnan, Cynthia; McMillan, Margaret Stokes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
(entrepreneurs' motivations for entrepreneurship and constraints faced) has predictive power over and above administrative data … barriers to efficient capital allocation among female entrepreneurs …
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When is capital enough to get female microenterprises growing? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana
Fafchamps, Marcel - 2011
Standard models of investment predict that credit-constrained firms should grow rapidly when given additional capital, and that how this capital is provided should not affect decisions to invest in the business or consume the capital. We randomly gave cash and in-kind grants to male- and...
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Connecting to Power : Political Connections, Innovation, and Firm Dynamics
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2018
Do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? We study Italian firms and their workers to answer this question. Our analysis uses a brand-new dataset, spanning the period from 1993 to 2014, where we merge: (i) firm-level balance sheet data; (ii) social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480788
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Enabling Entrepreneurial Choice
Agrawal, Ajay K. - 2020
Entrepreneurs must choose between alternative strategies for bringing their idea to market. They face uncertainty … regarding both the quality of their idea as well as the efficacy of each strategy. While entrepreneurs can reduce this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481574
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Do Entry Regulations Deter Entrepreneurship and Job Creation? Evidence from Recent Reforms in Portugal
Branstetter, Lee G. - 2010
relatively poorly-educated entrepreneurs, operating in the low-tech sector (agriculture, construction, and retail trade). These …
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