Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on Microfinance Clients and Institutions (doi:10.7910/DVN/27985)

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

doi:10.7910/DVN/27985

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Karlan, Dean; Valdivia, Martin, 2014, "Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on Microfinance Clients and Institutions", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/27985, Harvard Dataverse, V2

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

doi:10.7910/DVN/27985

Karlan, Dean (Yale University)

Valdivia, Martin (Grupo de Analisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE))

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Innovations for Poverty Action

Research Transparency, Data Ethics, and Governance

2014-12-03

2014

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/27985

Social Sciences, Entrepreneurship, Microfinance, Business training, Business skills, Adult education

Using a randomized control trial, we measure the marginal impact of adding business training to a Peruvian group lending program for female microentrepreneurs. Treatment groups received thirty- to sixty-minute entrepreneurship training sessions during their normal weekly or monthly banking meeting over a period of one to two years. Control groups remained as they were before, meeting at the same frequency but solely for making loan and savings payments. We find little or no evidence of changes in key outcomes such as business revenue, profits, or employment. We nevertheless observed business knowledge improvements and increased client retention rates for the microfinance institution.

2002-2005

Peru

Lima, Ayacucho

Individuals

Women who were part of a lending group.

In Ayacucho, of the 140 village banks (3,265 clients), 55 were assigned to a mandatory treatment group (clients had to stay through the training at their weekly bank meeting), 34 were assigned to a voluntary treatment group (clients were allowed to leave after their loan payment was made, before the training began), and 51 were assigned to a control group that received no additional services beyond the credit and savings program. In Lima, of 99 FINCA- sponsored banks (1,326 clients), 49 were assigned to mandatory treatment and 50 were assigned to control (there was no voluntary treatment group in Lima).

In-person interviews; financial transaction information from FINCA database

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Karlan, D., and Valdivia, M., 2011, "Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on Microfinance Clients and Institutions." The Review of Economics and Statistics 93(2): 510-527.

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Karlan, D., and Valdivia, M., 2011, "Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on Microfinance Clients and Institutions." The Review of Economics and Statistics 93(2): 510-527.

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