Replication data for: The Effects of Micro-entrepreneurship Programs on Labor Market Performance: Experimental Evidence from Chile

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Claudia Martínez A.; Esteban Puentes; Jaime Ruiz-Tagle

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Project Citation:

Martínez A., Claudia, Puentes, Esteban, and Ruiz-Tagle, Jaime. Replication data for: The Effects of Micro-entrepreneurship Programs on Labor Market Performance: Experimental Evidence from Chile. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2018. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113649V1

Project Description

Summary: We investigate the impact of a program providing asset transfers and business training to low income individuals in Chile, and asked whether a larger asset transfer would magnify the program's impact. We randomly assigned participation in a large scale, publicly run micro-entrepreneurship program and evaluated its effects over 45 months. The program improved business practices, employment, and labor income. In the short run, self-employment increased by 14.8/25.2 percentage points for a small/large asset transfer. In the long run, individuals assigned to a smaller transfer were 9 percentage points more likely to become wage workers, whereas those assigned to larger transfers tended to remain self-employed.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Micro entrepreneurship; Randomized control trial

JEL Classification:
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      J23 Labor Demand
      L25 Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope
      L26 Entrepreneurship
      L53 Enterprise Policy
      O14 Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology
      R23 Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics

Geographic Coverage: Chile

Time Period(s): 8/1/2010 – 6/1/2014

Universe: Micro entrepreneurship government program

Data Type(s): survey data; administrative records data; experimental data

Methodology

Data Source: administrative records, agency-sponsored surveys

Unit(s) of Observation: Individuals,

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