The returns to microenterprise support among the ultrapoor: A field experiment in postwar Uganda
dc.contributor.author | Blattman, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Green, EP | |
dc.contributor.author | Jamison, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Lehmann, MC | |
dc.contributor.author | Annan, J | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-03-05T15:27:11Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-04 | |
dc.description.abstract | We show that extremely poor, war-affected women in northern Uganda have high returns to a package of $150 cash, five days of business skills training, and ongoing supervision. Sixteen months after grants, participants doubled their microenterprise ownership and incomes, mainly from petty trading. We also show these ultrapoor have too little social capital, but that group bonds, informal insurance, and cooperative activities could be induced and had positive returns. When the control group received cash and training 20 months later, we varied supervision, which represented half of the program costs. A year later, supervision increased business survival but not consumption. (JEL I38, J16, J23, J24, L26, O15, Z13) | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 35-64 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1257/app.20150023 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/31838 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | American Economic Association | en_GB |
dc.rights | Copyright 2016 American Economic Association. All rights reserved. | en_GB |
dc.title | The returns to microenterprise support among the ultrapoor: A field experiment in postwar Uganda | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2018-03-05T15:27:11Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1945-7782 | |
dc.description | This is the final version of the article. Available from American Economic Association via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | en_GB |