Generating Skilled Self-Employment in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Uganda*

By Christopher Blattman, N. Fiala, Sebastian Martinez. 2014

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research

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Universal Basic Income in the Developing World (2019, unknown): “Blattman et al. (2014) report on an experiment in Uganda where young men were given grants of about $400 per head as a part of a group and find large and durable effects on earnings, two and four years after the intervention.”
Can Employment Reduce Lawlessness and Rebellion? A Field Experiment with High-Risk Men in a Fragile State (2016, background): “Fourth, when an election crisis in Côte d’Ivoire led to a short war, between 3 and 10% of men in the control group reported actions such as attending secret meetings with recruiters 11One of the few employment interventions to measure these outcomes, a postwar cash transfer program in Uganda, finds ”
The Impact of Vocational Training for the Unemployed: Experimental Evidence from Turkey (2014, unknown): “…increase in employment (Maitra and Mani, 2012), while two studies of youth in Uganda which offer vocational training in combination with a grant (Blattman et al, 2013) or in combination with life skills training (Bandiera et al, 2012) also found positive impacts on employment and/or earnings.”
Cash transfers and labor supply: Evidence from a large-scale program in Iran (2018, unknown): “More recently unconditional cash transfers have become popular, because they seem to improve the welfare of the poor without the added cost of monitoring (Haushofer and Shapiro (2013), Blattman et al. (2013) and Blattman and Niehaus (2014), Aker (2013) Baird et al. (2014)).”
Returns to microcredit, cash grants and training for male and female microentrepreneurs in Uganda (2018, background): “These rates are either comparable to or higher than several studies working with similar populations (e.g., Baird, McIntosh, & Ozler, 2011; Blattman et al., 2014).”
Identifying and Spurring High-Growth Entrepreneurship: Experimental Evidence from a Business Plan Competition (2015, background): “Blattman et al. (2014) considers a program in Uganda where groups received grants of approximately US$382 per member, and finds this generates increases in skilled self-employment and in incomes for the recipients, but only minor increases in employment in these firms.”
Labor Markets and Poverty in Village Economies (2015, background): “…do not encourage occupational change, where annual costs are lower but need to be recurrent in order to exert an in‡uence on consumption (see also Blattman et al. 2014; Banerjee et al. 2015a, Banerjee 2016).37 Understanding whether and how governments can take up these programs and whether they…”
Debunking the Stereotype of the Lazy Welfare Recipient (2015, unknown): “Blattman, Fiala, and Martinez (2014) evaluate the Youth Opportunities Program (YOP), a government program in northern Uganda designed to help unemployed adults become self-employed artisans.”
Promoting Women's Economic Empowerment: What Works? (2014, background): “Continued Study Features Sample Intervention Findings Attanasio, Kugler, and Meghir (2011) Vocational training in urban Colombia Unemployed young people placed in lowest two deciles of income distribution 3 months in-classroom training and 3 months of on-the-job training; trainees receive daily stip”