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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w23358 |
来源ID | Working Paper 23358 |
Household Matters: Revisiting the Returns to Capital among Female Micro-entrepreneurs | |
Arielle Bernhardt; Erica Field; Rohini Pande; Natalia Rigol | |
发表日期 | 2017-05-01 |
出版年 | 2017 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Several field experiments find positive returns to grants for male and not female micro-entrepreneurs. But, these analyses largely overlook that male and female micro-entrepreneurs often belong to the same household. Using data from randomized trials in India, Sri Lanka and Ghana, we show that the gender gap in microenterprise performance is not due to a gap in aptitude. Instead, low average returns of female-run enterprises are observed because women's capital is invested into their husbands' enterprises rather than their own. When women are the sole household enterprise operator, capital shocks lead to large increases in profits. Household-level income gains are equivalent regardless of the grant or loan recipient's gender. |
主题 | Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Public Economics ; Taxation ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Development and Growth ; Development |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23358 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/581032 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Arielle Bernhardt,Erica Field,Rohini Pande,et al. Household Matters: Revisiting the Returns to Capital among Female Micro-entrepreneurs. 2017. |
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