German Development Economics Conference 2024

Session

Parallel Session 3

24 May 2024, 11:00

Leibniz Universität Hannover

153. Light touch, lean tally: impacts of a MSME support programme in Côte d'Ivoire

Tabea Lakemann (German Institute for Global and Area Studies, University of Goettingen)

24/05/2024, 11:00

Impact Evaluation

Parallel Session

With Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) being the most important employers in many developing countries, identifying ways to raise productivity, improve employment conditions and formalise labour in these firms is of prime policy importance. Yet, employment outcomes are often addressed only implicitly in interventions targeting MSMEs and their evaluations, due to the typically small...

90. Gendered Access to Finance: The Role of Team Formation, Idea Quality, and Implementation Constraints in Business Evaluations

Kristina Czura (University of Groningen)

24/05/2024, 11:30

Financial Inclusion and Microfinance

Parallel Session

Access to finance is crucial for entrepreneurial success, yet constraints for women are particularly pronounced. We structurally unpack whether loan officers evaluate business ideas and implementation constraints differently for male and female entrepreneurs, both as individual entrepreneurs or in entrepreneurial teams. In a lab-in-the-field experiment with Ugandan loan officers, we document...

158. Scaling up financial education among micro-entrepreneurs. Evidence from a randomized saturation experiment

Lukas Menkhoff

24/05/2024, 12:00

Financial Inclusion and Microfinance

Parallel Session

We study direct, spillover and saturation effects of a financial education program on micro-entrepreneurs in Uganda. We randomize the program at the cluster-level, and then randomize the share of treated individuals within treated clusters. 15 months later, the treated show expected effects, such as increased use and amount of mobile money savings or higher investments. Spillovers on untreated...