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Complementing Business Training with Access to Finance: Evidence from SMEs in Kenya

Ashraf, Anik; Lyons, Elizabeth - 2023

This paper investigates the complementarity between business training and access to financial capital for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Kenya. All participants in a business training program are offered training. One-third of participants are offered loans immediately after training...

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Gendered Access to Finance: The Role of Team Formation, Idea Quality, and Implementation Constraints in Business Evaluations

Bartos, Vojtech; Castro, Silvia; Czura, Kristina; … - 2023

We analyze gender discrimination in entrepreneurship finance. Access to finance is crucial for entrepreneurial success, yet constraints for women are particularly pronounced. We structurally unpack whether loan officers evaluate business ideas and implementation constraints differently for male...

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Gendered Access to Finance: The Roles of Team Formation, Idea Quality, and Implementation Constraints in Business Evaluations

Bartŏs, Vojtĕch; Castro, Silvia; Czura, Kristina; … - 2024

We analyze gender bias in entrepreneurship finance. Access to finance is crucial for entrepreneurial success, yet women are particularly constrained. We structurally unpack whether loan officers evaluate business ideas and implementation constraints differently for male and female entrepreneurs,...

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Measurement and Determinants of Access to Loans

Hainz, Christa; Nabokin, Tatjana - 2013

Measuring and identifying financial constraints represents an important challenge in empirical studies. Due to data limitations perception-based indicators or approximations of access to finance by the usage of finance are often used, disregarding firm-specific differences in the demand for...

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The Impact of Student Aid Eligibility on Higher Education Applications

Remigereau, Camille; Schäper, Clara - 2024

This study examines how student aid eligibility influences application decisions to higher education using administrative data from the French national centralized platform. We employ a difference-in-differences approach following a change in the income thresholds for aid eligibility. We find...

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Digital Skills: Social Disparities and the Impact of Early Mentoring

Kosse, Fabian; Leffler, Tim; Woemmel, Arna - 2024

We investigate social disparities in digital skills, focusing on both actual proficiency levels and confidence in these skills. Drawing on a representative sample from Germany, we first demonstrate that both dimensions strongly predict labor market success. We then use this sample to identify...

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Unified Growth Theory: Roots of Growth and Inequality in the Wealth of Nations

Galor, Oded - 2024

What sparked humanity's leap from stagnation to prosperity? What lies at the core of inequality among nations? Unified … of change that have governed the journey of humanity, driven the growth process, and shaped inequality across the globe … stagnation; and (ii) The Mystery of Inequality—the roots of the vast inequality in the wealth of nations. The theory suggests …

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The Social Cost of Carbon with Intragenerational Inequality under Economic Uncertainty

van der Ploeg, Rick; Emmerling, Johannes; Groom, Ben - 2022

A formula is derived for the social cost of carbon (SCC) that takes account of intragenerational income inequality and … intergenerational inequality aversion and for risk aversion. If growth increases (reduces) intra-generational inequality, the SDR is … lower (higher) and the SCC higher (lower) than along an inequality-neutral growth path, especially if intra-generational and …

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Show Me the Amenity: Are Higher-Paying Firms Better All Around?

Sockin, Jason - 2022

Do firms that pay more offer better amenities, or does the greater pay compensate for worse amenities? Using matched U.S. employee-employer data, this paper estimates the joint distribution of wages, amenities, and job satisfaction across firms. Fifty amenities are captured applying topic...

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Mapping Educational Disparities in Life-Cycle Consumption

Jensen, Svend E. Hougaard; Olafsson, Sigurdur P.; … - 2022

This paper uses data taken from the tax returns of all Icelandic taxpayers in 2005-2019, a period that saw large changes in disposable income around the country's financial crisis in 2008, to plot the life-cycle path of consumption and income for different education groups and to estimate the...

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