Data & Code For: Is it Who You Are or What You Get?

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Bruno Crepon, ENSAE Paris; Mohamed El Komi, American University in Cairo; Adam Osman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Project Description

Summary: Is the type of financial support provided to businesses more important than which businesses receive it? Loans and grants can lead to differences in optimal investments and in scope for moral hazard. We randomize 3,293 business-loan applicants into receiving a loan, cash grant, in-kind grant or nothing. All treatments equally increase income, yet there are large differences within a treatment group with impacts concentrated at the top of the distribution. Those who succeed with loans are observationally equivalent to those who succeed with grants, showcasing that owner heterogeneity is more important than the type of support received in microenterprise development.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Randomized Experiment

JEL Classification:
      C93 Field Experiments
      D22 Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
      J23 Labor Demand
      J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
      O12 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development

Geographic Coverage: Egypt

Universe: Approved loan applicants to 3 MFI's in Qena, Egypt.

Data Type(s): experimental data; survey data

Collection Notes: Data collection received CAPMAS approval from government of Egypt.

Methodology

Response Rate: greater than 93% response rate in follow up survey

Sampling: Applicants to Microfinance Organizations

Data Source: Collected by Researchers

Collection Mode(s): face-to-face interview

Unit(s) of Observation: Individuals

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V1 [2023-12-12]

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