AEA RCT Registry

Field	Before	After
Study Withdrawn		No
Intervention Completion Date		November 30, 2013
Data Collection Complete		Yes
Final Sample Size: Number of Clusters (Unit of Randomization)		157 Markets (clusters), 3537 Firms
Was attrition correlated with treatment status?		No
Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations		3537 firms
Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms		93 treated markets, with 2160 firms; 64 control markets with 1377 A second-level randomization within treated markets selected 1172 firms for training, and 988 as controls for looking at spillovers
Public Data URL		https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/project/119063/version/V1/view
Is there a restricted access data set available on request?		No
Program Files		Yes
Program Files URL		https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/project/119063/version/V1/view
Data Collection Completion Date		August 31, 2017
Is data available for public use?		Yes

Field	Before	After
Paper Abstract		A common concern with efforts to directly help some small businesses to grow is that their growth comes at the expense of their unassisted competitors. We test this possibility using a two-stage randomized experiment in Kenya which randomizes business training at the market level, and then within markets to selected businesses. Three years after training, the treated businesses are selling more, earn higher profits, and their owners have higher well-being. Point estimates of the spillovers on the competing businesses are small and not statistically significant, and the markets as a whole have grown in terms of sales volume.
Paper Citation		McKenzie, David, and Susana Puerto. 2021. "Growing Markets through Business Training for Female Entrepreneurs: A Market-Level Randomized Experiment in Kenya." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 13 (2): 297-332.
Paper URL		https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20180340

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