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Despite the emphasis placed by microfinance organizations on lending to female business owners, evidence from three recent randomized controlled trials has cast doubt on the ability of capital alone to grow female-operated microenterprises: in my own previous experiment in Sri Lanka women given...
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the entrepreneur and the investor, resulting in a continuum of contracts ranging from a debt-like contract that shifts … little risk from the entrepreneur to a pure revenue-sharing contract in which the investor absorbs much more of the risk. The …
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explore different explanations for the lower returns among female owners, and find no evidence that the gender gap is … spend the grant on working capital and women on equipment. The gender gap is largest when male-dominated sectors are …
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female owners. We find no evidence that the gender gap is explained by differences in ability, risk aversion, or … women on equipment. We also find that the gender gap is largest when we compare male-dominated sectors to female …
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female owners. We find no evidence that the gender gap is explained by differences in ability, risk aversion, or … women on equipment. We also find that the gender gap is largest when we compare male-dominated sectors to female …
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