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Cash transfer programs are widely used in settings where child labour is prevalent. Even if many of these programs are explicitly implemented to improve children's welfare, in theory their impact on child labour is undetermined. This paper systematically reviews the empirical evidence on the...
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access in promoting entrepreneurship among informal sector firms in India. Our results are robust to alternative … what directions? We take advantage of nationwide data collected in 2010/11 and 2015/16 by India's National Sample Survey …
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We study the role of formal institutions of contract enforcement in facilitating investments in small and medium firms(MSME). In a framework where established entrepreneurs can enforce contracts informally using their network ties and hierarchical advantage, we argue that an efficient formal...
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We develop a framework for quantifying barriers to labor force participation (LFP) and entrepreneurship faced by women … in India. We find substantial barriers to LFP, and higher costs of expanding businesses through the hiring of workers for …, policies promoting female entrepreneurship can significantly increase female LFP even without explicitly targeting female LFP …
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We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three … and non-monetary wellbeing to entrepreneurial allocation. Using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor we establish … that opportunity entrepreneurship may contribute towards national wellbeing and that better wellbeing in turn may stimulate …
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this traumatic event. Our findings imply that policies encouraging entrepreneurship should also carefully consider the …
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This paper extends prior theory linking present-day sex ratios to present-day propensity for entrepreneurship among men … backward in time to explore the long-run gender origins of entrepreneurship. We argue that present-day propensity for … entrepreneurship among men will be higher in neighbourhoods which had historically high sex ratios. We propose that high sex ratios …
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delivery of a major entrepreneurship curriculum reform in Rwanda. The reform introduced interactive pedagogy and a focus on … business skills in the country's required upper secondary entrepreneurship course. In addition to the government's standard … substitution between entrepreneurship and employment among students in treated schools. …
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The persistently high employment share of the informal sector makes entrepreneurship a necessity for youth in many … developing countries. We exploit exogenous variation in the implementation of Rwanda's entrepreneurship education reform in … controlled trial, we evaluated a three-year intensive training for entrepreneurship teachers, finding pedagogical changes as …
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The formation of expectations is a fundamental part of the process when people decide about engaging in an entrepreneurial venture. We evaluate the accuracy of newly self-employed people's predictions of their overall future wellbeing. Based on individual panel data for Germany, we find that...
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