Human and Financial Capital for Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Field and Lab Experiment

By Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge, Kjetil Bjorvatn, Bertil Tungodden. Management Sciences, 2015

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics

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Learning and Earning: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in India (2017, result): “Similar gender biased results are obtained by Fafchamps, McKenzie, Quinn, and Woodruff (2011) and Berge, Bjorvatn, and Tungodden (2011).”
JEEA‐FBBVA LECTURE 2013: THE NEW EMPIRICAL ECONOMICS OF MANAGEMENT (2014, background): “Others find insignificant or mixed results—Berge et al. (2011) for example find positive effects for men but negative effects for women. Some other studies find negative effects—such as Giné and Mansuri (2011) or Drexler, Fisher, and Schoar’s (2011) basic accounting training. Karlan, Knight, and Udr”
Microcredit Under the Microscope: What Have We Learned in the Past Two Decades, and What Do We Need to Know? (2013, background): “F or p er so na l u se o nl y. Berge et al. (2011) gave a randomly selected group ofmicroentrepreneurs in Tanzania a capital drop of approximately 80 dollars each and find that it has no effect on investment and insignificant positive effects on profits and revenue.”
Returns to microcredit, cash grants and training for male and female microentrepreneurs in Uganda (2018, background): “Other work on capital infusion into existing enterprises shows large returns, though the best evidence suggests that cash does not work well for existing female enterprises and other constrained businesses (Berge et al., 2015; de Mel et al., 2008; Fafchamps et al., 2014).”
The New Empirical Economics of Management (2014, background): “Others find insignificant or mixed results – Berge, Oppedal, Bjorvatn, and Tungodden (2011) for example find positive effects for men but negative effects for women.”
Microenterprise growth and the flypaper effect: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana (2014, background): “Several recent studies (e.g. Berge et al, 2011; Karlan et al., 2012) have also given cash transfers to existing businesses, often in combination with training, but none of them compare cash versus in-kind grants.”
Promoting Women's Economic Empowerment: What Works? (2014, background): “The lack of positive training outcomes is not restricted to women but is more consistently observed for women than for men and is attributed to women’s lowerquality businesses and more binding external constraints, including greater household duties and limited say in household decisions (Gine and M”
How does microfinance enhance entrepreneurial outcomes in emerging economies? The mediating mechanisms of psychological and social capital (2014, methodology): “Berge et al. (2011) found mixed effects for an ambitious business training programme in Tanzania: men’s financial practices improved, as did their business results, while women’s remained the same.”
Entrepreneurship Programs in Developing Countries: A Meta Regression Analysis (2013, background): “Frequently used interventions include technical (vocational), business (managerial), and financial skills training, financing support such as microcredit loans and grants, and counseling ranging from mentoring and advisory services to post-program consulting.”
Universal Basic Income in the Developing World (2019, neutral): “(2015) on tailors in urban Ghana, and Berge et al. (2015) on microfinance group members in Tanzania) or find short-run effects that then fade (including Hicks et al. (2017) in rural Kenya and Brudevold-Newman et al. (2017) among young women in Nairobi). Haushofer and Shapiro (2018) have a recent wor”
Behind the Gate Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training (2015, background): “A few recent experiments of the effects of business training on microentrepreneurs have been conducted in developing countries (Berge et al. 2011; Drexler et al. 2011; Karlan and Valdivia 2011; Karlan et al. 2012; Field et al 2010).”
Growing Markets through Business Training for Female Entrepreneurs: A Market-Level Randomized Experiment in Kenya (2017, background): “This existing literature also suggests that business training may be less effective for female business owners, either because they work in sectors with very low efficient scales or because they face many other constraints that limit the ability of their businesses to grow (e.g. de Mel et al., 2014;”