The Return to Capital in Ghana

By Christopher R. Udry, S. Anagol. 2006

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Firm Dynamics, Productivity Growth, and Job Creation in Developing Countries: The Role of Micro- and Small Enterprises (2015, unknown): “Udry and Anagol (2006), Göbel, Grimm, and Lay (2011), and Grimm, Kruger, and Lay (2011) reported similar results for micro-enterprises in Ghana, Peru, and other Sub-Saharan African countries, respectively.”
The Divide between Subsistence and Transformational Entrepreneurship (2010, background): “While it is often difficult to measure the extent of the capital constraints or even the cost of capital for a firm, Udry and Anagol (2006) use an innovative approach to estimate the real return to capital in Ghana’s informal sector in order to assesswhether small businesses experience capital…”
Why Does Misallocation Persist (2010, methodology): “This can be done using the apparatus of Skiba (1978) ,”
Does the Classic Microfinance Model Discourage Entrepreneurship Among the Poor? Experimental Evidence from India † (2013, background): “A second crude benchmark comes from Karlan and Zinman (2009) who find that a 1 percentage point decrease in the future interest rate decreases default by 4 percent. They do not compute repayment rates. Under the strong assumption that our estimates that defaulting decreases the rate of repayment in ”
The Persistent Power of Behavioral Change: Long-Run Impacts of Temporary Savings Subsidies for the Poor (2018, unknown): “In spite of recent progress, approximately 700 million people still live in extreme poverty, with 35 percent of individuals in Sub-Saharan Africans living in this state (Cruz et al. 2015).”
Experimental Evidence on Returns to Capital and Access to Finance in Mexico (2008, background): “Udry and Anagol (2006) estimate annual returns to capital among small-scale agricultural producers on median-sized plots in Ghana at 50 percent for traditional crops and 250 percent for nontraditional crops.”
The Shape of Temptation: Implications for the Economic Lives of the Poor (2010, unknown): “…Ben Polak, Matthew Rabin and seminar participants at BREAD, Cornell, Columbia, Bocconi, Stanford, Warwick, Yale, Princeton, UCLA, Harvard, MIT, Pompeu Fabra, Unviversidad Carlos III de Madrid, The Trento Summer School on Behavioral Economics, and Boston University for extremely helpful…”