Assistance Offer on Request for Capital

Last registered on March 19, 2020
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Trial Information

General Information

Title
Assistance Offer on Request for Capital
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0005572
Initial registration date
March 18, 2020

Initial registration date is when the trial was registered.

It corresponds to when the registration was submitted to the Registry to be reviewed for publication.

First published
March 19, 2020, 12:12 PM EDT

First published corresponds to when the trial was first made public on the Registry after being reviewed.

Locations

Country
Ethiopia
Region

Primary Investigator

Name
Ketki Sheth
Affiliation
UC Merced
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Other Primary Investigator(s)

PI Name
Shanthi Manian
PI Affiliation

Additional Trial Information

Status
On going
Start date
2019-10-15
End date
2022-01-01
Keywords
Finance & Microfinance, Gender
Additional Keywords
JEL code(s)
Secondary IDs
Abstract
We partner with the Entrepreneurship Development Center (EDC) to implement a business plan competition. As part of their advertising of the competition, EDC used their previous customer based call list to notify previous clients about the business plan competition. They randomly assigned whether the call would include an offer for in-person assistance on completing the application and participating in the Business Plan Competition. We test whether the offer increased participation, particularly for groups that are generally observed as having less access to capital, and whether the quality of the encouraged business differed as a function of the offer.

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Registration Citation

Citation
Manian, Shanthi and Ketki Sheth. 2020. "Assistance Offer on Request for Capital." AEA RCT Registry. March 19. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.5572-1.0
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Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
Randomly assigned previous clients the offer for in-person assistance with an application for a Business Plan Competition.
Intervention Start Date
2019-10-15
Intervention End Date
2020-02-01

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
Indicator for submission of the application
Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
As part of their advertising of the competition, the implementing organization (EDC) used their previous customer based call list to notify previous clients about the business plan competition. They randomly assigned whether the call would include an offer for in-person assistance on completing the application and participating in the Business Plan Competition.
Experimental Design Details
Randomization Method
Randomization done in an office by a computer
Randomization Unit
Individual
Was the treatment clustered?
No

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
NA
Sample size: planned number of observations
Approximately 5,000
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
Approximately 500 to 1000 offers for assistance will be made.
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
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Intervention

Is the intervention completed?
No
Data Collection Complete
Data Publication

Data Publication

Is public data available?
No

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