Growing Markets through Business Training for Female Entrepreneurs: A Market-Level Randomized Experiment in Kenya

David McKenzie and Susana Puerto

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, vol. 13, issue 2, 297-332

Abstract: A common concern with efforts to directly help some small businesses to grow is that their growth comes at the expense of their unassisted competitors. We test this possibility using a two-stage randomized experiment in Kenya that randomizes business training at the market level and then within markets to selected businesses. Three years after training, the treated businesses are selling more, earn higher profits, and their owners have higher well-being. Point estimates of the spillovers on the competing businesses are small and not statistically significant, and the markets as a whole have grown in terms of sales volume.

JEL-codes: J16 L25 L26 L53 O14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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