Asset transfer programme for the ultra poor: A randomized control trial evaluation

The world’s poorest people lack both capital and skills and are trapped in low return occupations. However, whether their economic lives can be transformed by programs which attempt to tackle both constraints by providing assets and training to enable them to run small businesses is unknown. To shed...

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Hlavní autoři:	Bandiera, Oriana, Burgess, Robin, Das, Narayan C, Gulesci, Selim, Rasul, Imran, Shams, Raniya, Sulaiman, Munshi
Médium:	Working Paper
Jazyk:	en_US
Vydáno:	BRAC Research and Evaluation Division 2022
Témata:	Asset transfer Entrepreneurship General equilibrium Poverty Skills Spill-overs
On-line přístup:	http://hdl.handle.net/10361/15931

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spelling	10361-159312022-01-16T21:01:23Z Asset transfer programme for the ultra poor: A randomized control trial evaluation Bandiera, Oriana Burgess, Robin Das, Narayan C Gulesci, Selim Rasul, Imran Shams, Raniya Sulaiman, Munshi Asset transfer Entrepreneurship General equilibrium Poverty Skills Spill-overs The world’s poorest people lack both capital and skills and are trapped in low return occupations. However, whether their economic lives can be transformed by programs which attempt to tackle both constraints by providing assets and training to enable them to run small businesses is unknown. To shed light on this issue we conduct a randomized evaluation of an entrepreneurship program that provides assets and training to the poorest women in rural Bangladesh. We find that the program transforms the occupational choices of the poor women who participated in the program by inducing them to spend more time in self-employment, less in wage labour and increases their labour market participation, leading to a 36% increase in annual income on average. Moreover, the program leads to an increase in wages at the village level and its effects spill over to other poor women who experience an increase in labour supply and income. 2022-01-16T09:18:26Z 2022-01-16T09:18:26Z 2012 2012-12 Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/10361/15931 en_US https://bigd.bracu.ac.bd/publications/asset-transfer-program-for-the-ultra-poor-a-randomized-control-trial-evaluation/ application/pdf BRAC Research and Evaluation Division
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spellingShingle	Asset transfer Entrepreneurship General equilibrium Poverty Skills Spill-overs Bandiera, Oriana Burgess, Robin Das, Narayan C Gulesci, Selim Rasul, Imran Shams, Raniya Sulaiman, Munshi Asset transfer programme for the ultra poor: A randomized control trial evaluation
description	The world’s poorest people lack both capital and skills and are trapped in low return occupations. However, whether their economic lives can be transformed by programs which attempt to tackle both constraints by providing assets and training to enable them to run small businesses is unknown. To shed light on this issue we conduct a randomized evaluation of an entrepreneurship program that provides assets and training to the poorest women in rural Bangladesh. We find that the program transforms the occupational choices of the poor women who participated in the program by inducing them to spend more time in self-employment, less in wage labour and increases their labour market participation, leading to a 36% increase in annual income on average. Moreover, the program leads to an increase in wages at the village level and its effects spill over to other poor women who experience an increase in labour supply and income.
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title	Asset transfer programme for the ultra poor: A randomized control trial evaluation
title_short	Asset transfer programme for the ultra poor: A randomized control trial evaluation
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Asset transfer programme for the ultra poor: A randomized control trial evaluation

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