Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on Microfinance Clients and Institutions

By Dean S. Karlan, Martín Valdivia. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research

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Financial Literacy Around the World: An Overview of the Evidence with Practical Suggestions for the Way Forward (2012, neutral): “The best-known evaluation is Karlan and Valdivia (2011), an RCT measuring the impact of attending business training sessions over a period of one to two years on business outcomes for female microentrepreneurs in Peru.”
Teaching teenagers in finance: does it work? (2015, background): “A large literature has focused on adults and small entrepreneurs and found mixed results, (e.g., Bruhn and Zia, 2011; Cole et al., 2011; Carpena et al., 2011; Collins, 2012; Drexler et al., 2010; Gibson et al., 2012; and Karlan and Valdivia, 2011).”
The effect of early entrepreneurship education: Evidence from a field experiment (2014, background): “These relationships are summarized in Table 3.25 Ever since Knight (1921) risk taking propensity has been defined as one of the distinguishing characteristics of entrepreneurs (see for example Kihlstrom and Laffont, 1979; Kanbur, 1979).”
The Effects of Financial Literacy on Sustainable Entrepreneurship (2021, background): “In the literature, the first noteworthy study on this subject is by Karlan and Valdivia in 2011 [50]: the authors show the positive impacts of teaching even basic financial concepts to micro-business entrepreneurs.”
Which Governance Mechanisms Promote Efficiency in Reaching Poor Clients? Evidence from Rated Microfinance Institutions (2012, neutral): “We also include a variable that controls for non-profit status, links with international networks, and the provision of non-financial services, as recent studies have shown that these variables influence the performance of the MFI (e.g., Karlan and Valdiva, 2006).”
How does microfinance enhance entrepreneurial outcomes in emerging economies? The mediating mechanisms of psychological and social capital (2014, background): “Karlan and Valdivia (2011) conducted a large-scale, randomised evaluation of microfinance clients in Peru, in which the lender used a third-party agency to incorporate training into client meetings over the course of several months.”
Stimulating managerial capital in emerging markets: the impact of business training for young entrepreneurs (2013, background): “Karlan and Valdivia (2011) use a randomised control trial to evaluate the impact of business training sessions over a period of 1–2 years on business outcomes for female micro-entrepreneurs in Peru.”
Friendship at Work: Can Peer Effects Catalyze Female Entrepreneurship? (WP-15-22) (2016, methodology): “(2)In terms of curriculum, the most related paper is Karlan and Valdivia (2011), who evaluate a program in Peru which used training materials from the same group, Freedom from Hunger, as we do.”
IS MICROCREDIT A BLESSING FOR THE POOR? A META-ANALYSIS (2015, background): “In addition, MC providers often offer advice and training for entrepreneurs (Karlan & Valdivia, 2011), which may also help them to improve their businesses’ performance.”