Replication data for: The Returns to Microenterprise Support among the Ultrapoor: A Field Experiment in Postwar Uganda

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Christopher Blattman; Eric P. Green; Julian Jamison; M. Christian Lehmann; Jeannie Annan

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Project Citation:

Blattman, Christopher, Green, Eric P., Jamison, Julian, Lehmann, M. Christian, and Annan, Jeannie. Replication data for: The Returns to Microenterprise Support among the Ultrapoor: A Field Experiment in Postwar Uganda. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2016. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113629V1

Project Description

Summary: 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)

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      I38 Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      J23 Labor Demand
      J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
      L26 Entrepreneurship
      O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
      Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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