The Returns to Microenterprise Support among the Ultrapoor: A Field Experiment in Postwar Uganda

By Tricia Gonwa, Julian C. Jamison, Katherine Rodrigues, Margaret A. Sheridan, Alexandra C. Hartman. 2016

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Can Employment Reduce Lawlessness and Rebellion? A Field Experiment with High-Risk Men in a Fragile State (2016, background): “Illicit 37 E.g., Banerjee et al. (2015); Blattman, Fiala, and Martinez (2014); Blattman et al. (2016); Haushofer and Shapiro (2013). resource extraction was an appealing alternative partly because of low enforcement.”
Generating Employment in Poor and Fragile States: Evidence from Labor Market and Entrepreneurship Programs (2015, unknown): “44See Blattman et al. (2015).”
Debunking the Stereotype of the Lazy Welfare Recipient (2015, unknown): “Blattman et al. (2016) carry out a randomized evaluation of a program where women in Northern Uganda—most of whom had never run a business before—were given a package comprised of $150 in cash, five days of business training, and ongoing supervision.”
The effects of cash transfers on adult labor market outcomes (2018, unknown): “Grants averaging $382 to youth in Uganda to start-up firms, conditional on them forming groups and putting together a business plan, resulted in a 17% increase in work hours and 38% increase in earnings (Blattman et al. 2014). Baird et al. IZA Journal of Development and Migration (2018) 8:22 Page 10”