Microenterprise growth and the flypaper effect: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana

By Marcel Fafchamps, David J. McKenzie, S. Quinn, Christopher Woodruff. 2014

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics

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Identifying and Spurring High-Growth Entrepreneurship: Experimental Evidence from a Business Plan Competition (2015, background): “An exception to this prediction will occur if there is a flypaper effect, as in Fafchamps et al. (2014). In this case, firm owners may have sub-optimally low levels of capital invested in their business as a result of self-control problems or external pressure, and the program may overcome these iss”
Promoting Women's Economic Empowerment: What Works? (2014, background): “According to Fafchamps et al. (2014), an internal, present-day orientation rather than external pressures to share the cash seems to guide women’s choices, whereas men show a future orientation or more self-control.”
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 Persistent Power of Behavioral Change: Long-Run Impacts of Temporary Savings Subsidies for the Poor (2018, positive): “These results mirror recent findings from a number of capital drop experiments and microfinance evaluations, which suggest that only individuals with some pre-existing entrepreneurial skill are able to benefit from interventions to grow self-employment income (Crépon et al. 2011; Angelucci et al. 20”
Universal Basic Income in the Developing World (2019, neutral): “0 and 45% per month, Fafchamps et al. (2014), also mentioned above, report returns between 0 and 30% per month. Hussam et al. (2017) gave randomly chosen entrepreneurs in India a $100”
Household Matters: Revisiting the Returns to Capital among Female Microentrepreneurs (2019, background): “Fafchamps et al. ( 2014 ) identified a sample of self-employed individuals in Accra who were aged 20–55, worked 30 or more hours per week, and whose enterprise had no paid employees and no motorized vehicle.”
Export Markets and Labor Allocation in a Low-Income Country (2018, positive): “Woodruff (2009) and Fafchamps et al. (2014). For example, de Mel, McKenzie, and Woodruff (2009) suggest that reported revenue in microenterprises may underestimate true revenue by as much as 30%. When we adjust the reported revenue in the household business sector by this factor, the labor productiv”