Growing Markets through Business Training for Female Entrepreneurs: A Market-Level Randomized Experiment in Kenya
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- David McKenzie & Susana Puerto, 2021. "Growing Markets through Business Training for Female Entrepreneurs: A Market-Level Randomized Experiment in Kenya," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 13(2), pages 297-332, April.
- Mckenzie,David J. & Puerto,Susana & Mckenzie,David J. & Puerto,Susana, 2017. "Growing markets through business training for female entrepreneurs : a market-level randomized experiment in Kenya," Policy Research Working Paper Series 7993, The World Bank.
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Keywords
business training; spillovers; microenterprise; market development;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- O17 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2017-04-23 (Development)
- NEP-ENT-2017-04-23 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-MFD-2017-04-23 (Microfinance)
- NEP-MKT-2017-04-23 (Marketing)
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