A firm of one's own: experimental evidence on credit constraints and occupational choice

Andrew Peter Brudevold-Newman, Maddalena Honorati, Pamela Jakiela, Owen Ozier, Andrew Peter Brudevold-Newman, Maddalena Honorati, Pamela Jakiela and Owen Ozier
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Pamela Jakiela and Owen Whitfield Ozier

No 7977, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: This study presents results from a randomized evaluation of two labor market interventions targeted to young women aged 18 to 19 years in three of Nairobi's poorest neighborhoods. One treatment offered participants a bundled intervention designed to simultaneously relieve credit and human capital constraints; a second treatment provided women with an unrestricted cash grant, but no training or other support. Both interventions had economically large and statistically significant impacts on income over the medium term (7 to 10 months after the end of the interventions), but these impacts dissipated in the second year after treatment. The results are consistent with a model in which savings constraints prevent women from smoothing consumption after receiving large transfers -- even in the absence of credit constraints, and when participants have no intention of remaining in entrepreneurship. The study also shows that participants hold remarkably accurate beliefs about the impacts of the treatments on occupational choice

Keywords: Employment and Unemployment; Private Sector Economics; Private Sector Development Law; Marketing; Labor Markets; Rural Labor Markets; Inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-02-16
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Working Paper: A Firm of One’s Own: Experimental Evidence on Credit Constraints and Occupational Choice (2023)
Working Paper: A Firm of One's Own: Experimental Evidence on Credit Constraints and Occupational Choice (2017)
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