| Field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Field Trial Status | Before on_going | After completed |
| Field Last Published | Before September 24, 2013 03:53 PM | After October 24, 2017 07:27 AM |
| Field Study Withdrawn | Before | After No |
| Field Intervention Completion Date | Before | After January 15, 2014 |
| Field Data Collection Complete | Before | After Yes |
| Field Final Sample Size: Number of Clusters (Unit of Randomization) | Before | After 1841 |
| Field Was attrition correlated with treatment status? | Before | After Yes |
| Field Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations | Before | After 1841 firms |
| Field Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms | Before | After 729 treated with winning competition, 1112 control |
| Field Do all standard errors account for clustering? | Before | After No |
| Field Public Data URL | Before | After http://microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/catalog/2329 |
| Field Is there a restricted access data set available on request? | Before | After No |
| Field Program Files | Before | After Yes |
| Field Program Files URL | Before | After http://microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/catalog/2329 |
| Field Data Collection Completion Date | Before | After February 15, 2015 |
| Field Is data available for public use? | Before | After Yes |
| Field Public analysis plan | Before No | After Yes |
| Field First registered on | Before | After September 24, 2013 |
| Field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Field Paper Abstract | Before | After Almost all firms in developing countries have fewer than 10 workers, with the modal firm consisting of just the owner. Are there potential high-growth entrepreneurs with the ability to grow their firms beyond this size? And, if so, can public policy help alleviate the constraints that prevent these entrepreneurs from doing so? A large-scale national business plan competition in Nigeria is used to help provide evidence on these two questions. The competition was launched with much fanfare, and attracted almost 24,000 entrants. Random assignment was used to select some of the winners from a pool of semi-finalists, with US$36 million in randomly allocated grant funding providing each winner with an average of almost US$50,000. Surveys tracking applicants over three years show that winning the business plan competition leads to greater firm entry, higher survival of existing businesses, higher profits and sales, and higher employment, including increases of over 20 percentage points in the likelihood of a firm having 10 or more workers. These effects appear to occur largely through the grants enabling firms to purchase more capital and hire more labor. |
| Field Paper Citation | Before | After David McKenzie (2015) "Identifying and Spurring High-Growth Entrepreneurship:Experimental Evidence from a Business Plan Competition", World Bank Policy Research Working Paper no. 7391 |
| Field Paper URL | Before | After http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/08/24899889/identifying-spurring-high-growth-entrepreneurship-experimental-evidence-business-plan-competition |
| Field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Field Paper Citation | Before | After Identifying and Spurring High-Growth Entrepreneurship: Experimental Evidence from a Business Plan Competition, American Economic Review, 107(8): 2278-2307, 2017 |
| Field Paper URL | Before | After https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20151404 |