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- Alibhai, Salman, Niklas Buehren, Michael Frese, Markus Goldstein, Sreelakshmi Papineni and Kathrin Wolf (2019) “Full Esteem Ahead? Mindset-oriented business training in Ethiopiaâ€, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper no. 8892.
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Anderson, Stephen and David McKenzie (2020) “Improving Business Practices and the Boundary of the Entrepreneur: A Randomized Experiment Comparing Training, Consulting, Insourcing and Outsourcingâ€, Mimeo.
Anderson, Stephen, Rajesh Chandy and Bilal Zia (2018) “Pathways to Profits: Identifying Separate Channels of Firm Growth Through Business Trainingâ€, Management Science, 64(12): 5559–5583 Anderson, Stephen, Pradeep Chintagunta, Frank Germann and Naufel Vilcassim (2020) “The Impact of Volunteer Marketers on Product Differentiation and Firm Growth: A Field Experiment with Ugandan Entrepreneursâ€, Chicago Booth Paper No. 20-13 Anderson, Stephen, Christy Lazicky and Bilal Zia (2019) “Measuring the Unmeasured: Combining Technology and Behavioral Insights to Improve Measurement of Business Outcomesâ€, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 8836.
- Arráiz, Irani, Syon Bhanot and Carla Calero (2019) “Less is More: Experimental Evidence on Heuristic-Based Business Training in Ecuadorâ€, IDB Invest Working Paper TN No.18.
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- Asanov, Igor and David McKenzie (2020) Showing Life Opportunities: Increasing opportunitydriven entrepreneurship and STEM careers through online courses in schools.. AEA RCT Registry. April 20. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.3593-3.2. Barsoum, Ghada, Bruno Crépon, Drew Gardiner, Bastien Michel, and William Parienté (2018) “Evaluating the impact of entrepreneurship edutainment in Egypt: An experimental approach with peer effectsâ€, Mimeo. PSE.
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Beaman, Lori, Jeremy Magruder and Jonathan Robinson (2014) “Minding small change among small firms in Kenyaâ€, Journal of Development Economics 108: 69-86.
- Berge, Lars, Kjetil Bjorvatn and Bertil Tungodden (2015) “Human and Financial Capital for Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Field and Lab Experimentâ€, Management Science 61(4): 707-22.
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- Bjorvatn, Kjetil, Alexander Cappelen, Linda Helgesson Sekei, Erik Sørensen, and Bertil Tungodden (2019) “Teaching Through Television: Experimental Evidence on Entrepreneurship Education in Tanzaniaâ€, Management Science, forthcoming.
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- Blattman, Christopher and Laura Ralston (2017) “Generating employment in poor and fragile states: Evidence from labor market and entrepreneurship programsâ€, Mimeo. University of Chicago.
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Bloom, Nicholas, Benn Eifert, Aprajit Mahajan, David McKenzie and John Roberts (2013) “Does Management Matter? Evidence from Indiaâ€, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 128(1): 1-51 Bloom, Nicholas and John van Reenen (2010) “Why do management practices differ across firms and countries?â€, Journal of Economic Perspectives 24(1): 203-224.
Brooks, Wyatt, Kevin Donovan, and Terrence Johnson (2018) “Mentors or teachers? Microenterprise training in Kenyaâ€, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 10(4): 196221.
Bruhn, Miriam, and Bilal Zia (2013) “Stimulating Managerial Capital in Emerging Markets: The Impact of Business Training for Young Entrepreneurs.†Journal of Development Effectiveness 5(2): 232–266 Bulte, Erwin, Robert Lensink, Rosine van Velzen and Nhung Thi Hong Vu (2016) “Do Gender and Business Trainings Affect Business Outcomes? Experimental Evidence from Vietnamâ€, Management Science, 63(9): 2885-2902 Buvinic, Mayra, Hillary C. Johnson, Elizaveta Perova, and Firman Witoelar (2020) “Can Boosting Savings and Skills Support Female Business Owners in Indonesia? Evidence from A Randomized Controlled Trial.†CGD Working Paper 529. Washington, DC Cai, Jing, and Adam Szeidl (2018) “Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance.†Quarterly Journal of Economics, 133(3): 1229-1282.
Bruhn, Miriam, Dean Karlan, and Antoinette Schoar (2018) “The Impact of Consulting Services on Small and Medium Enterprises: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Mexico, Journal of Political Economy, 126(2): 635-87.
- Calderon, Gabriela, Jesse Cunha, and Giacomo de Giorgi (2020) “Business Literacy and Development: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Rural Mexico.†Economic Development and Cultural Change, 68(2): 507-540.
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- Campos, Francisco, Michael Frese, Markus Goldstein, Leonardo Iacovone, Hillary Johnson, David McKenzie, and Mona Mensmann (2017) “Teaching personal initiative beats traditional training in boosting small business in West Africaâ€, Science, 357(6357): 1287-90 Chong, Alberto and Irene Velez (2020) “Business training for women entrepreneurs in the Kyrgyz Republic: evidence from a randomized controlled trialâ€, Journal of Development Effectiveness DOI: 10.1080/19439342.2020.1758750 Ciani, A., M. Hyland, N. Karalashvili, J. L. Keller, A. Ragoussis, T. T. Tran (2020). Making It Big: Why Developing Countries Need More Large Firms, Washington DC: World Bank Group, forthcoming Cole, Shawn and Nilesh Fernando (2016) “’Mobile’izing Agricultural Advice: Technology Adoption, Diffusion and Sustainabilityâ€, Harvard Business School Working paper no. 13-047.
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Campos, Francisco, Michael Frese, Markus Goldstein, Leonardo Iacovone, Hillary Johnson, David McKenzie, and Mona Mensmann (2018) “Is personal initiative training a substitute or complement to the existing human capital of women? Results from a randomized trial in Togoâ€, AEA Papers and Proceedings 108: 256-61.
Cole, Shawn, Mukta Joshi and Antoinette Schoar (2019) “Heuristics on Call: The impact of mobile-phone based financial management adviceâ€, Mimeo. IDEAS 42. Cusolito, Ana, Ernest Dautovic and David McKenzie “Can Government Intervention make firms more investment-ready? A randomized experiment in the Western Balkansâ€, Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
- Dalton, Patricio, Julius Rüschenpöhler, Burak Uras and Bilal Zia (2020) “Curating Local Knowledge: Experimental Evidence from Small Retailers in Indonesiaâ€, Mimeo. World Bank.
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Dammert, Ana and Aisha Nansamba (2019) “Skills Training and Business Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from Liberiaâ€, Partnership for Economic Policy Working paper no. 201924.
De Mel, Suresh, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff (2009) “Measuring Microenterprise Profits: Must We Ask How the Sausage Is Made?â€, Journal of Development Economics, 88(1): 19-31 De Mel, Suresh, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff (2008) “Returns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experimentâ€, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123(4): 1329-72 Dimitriadis, Stefan and Rembrand Koning (2020) “Social Skills Improve Business Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial with Entrepreneurs in Togoâ€, Mimeo. HBS.
De Mel, Suresh, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff (2014) “Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics: Experimental evidence from Sri Lankaâ€, Journal of Development Economics 106: 199-210.
Drexler, Alejandro, Gregory Fischer, and Antoinette Schoar (2014) “Keeping it Simple: Financial Literacy and Rules of Thumb.†American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 6(2): 1-31.
- Fafchamps, Marcel, and Simon Quinn (2016) “Networks and Manufacturing Firms in Africa: Results from a Randomized Field Experiment†World Bank Economic Review, 32(3): 656- 675.
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Fafchamps, Marcel, David McKenzie, Simon Quinn and Christopher Woodruff (2012) “Using PDA consistency checks to increase the precision of profits and sales measurement in panelsâ€, Journal of Development Economics 98(1): 51-57.
Fairlie, Robert, Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman (2015) “Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Trainingâ€, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 7(2): 125-61.
Field, Erica, Seema Jayachandran, Rohini Pande and Natalia Rigol (2016) “Friendship at work: Can peer effects catalyze female entrepreneurship?â€, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 8(2): 125-53.
Fox, Louise and Alun Thomas (2016) “Africa’s got work to do: A diagnostic of youth employment challenges in Sub-Saharan Africaâ€, Journal of African Economies 25: AERC supplement 1: i16i36.
- Giné, Xavier and Ghazala Mansuri (2020) “Money or Management? A Field Experiment on Constraints to Entrepreneurship in Rural Pakistanâ€, Economic Development and Cultural Change, forthcoming.
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- Glaub, Matthias, Michael Frese, Sebastian Fischer, and Maria Hoppe (2014) “Increasing Personal Initiative in Small Business Managers or Owners Leads to Entrepreneurial Success: A TheoryBased Controlled Randomized Field Intervention for Evidence-Based Management†Academy of Management Learning and Education 13(3): 354–379.
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Gonzalez-Uribe, Juanita, and Michael Leatherbee (2018) “The Effects of Business Accelerators on Venture Performance: Evidence from Start-up Chileâ€, Review of Financial Studies 31(4): 15661603.
Higuchi, Yuki, Edwin Paul Mhede and Tetsushi Sonobe (2019) “Short- and Medium-Run Impacts of Management Training: an Experiment in Tanzaniaâ€, World Development 114(C): 220-36.
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- Hussam, Reshmaan, Natalia Rigol, and Benjamin Roth (2020) “Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information: Mechanism Design in the Fieldâ€, Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-082 Iacovone, Leonardo, William Maloney and David McKenzie (2020) “Improving Management with Individual and Group-Based Consulting: Results from a Randomized Experiment in Colombiaâ€, Mimeo. World Bank.
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- INEGI (2016) Las empresas en México: Censos Económicos 2014, Instituto Nacional de EstadÃstica y GeografÃa, Mexico.
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Karlan, Dean, Ryan Knight, and Christopher Udry (2015) “Consulting and Capital Experiments with Microenterprise Tailors in Ghanaâ€, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 118: 281-302.
Lafortune, Jeanne, Julio Riutort, and José Tessada (2018) “Role models or individual consulting: The impact of personalizing micro-entrepreneurship trainingâ€, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 10(4): 222-45 Maffoli, Alessandro, David McKenzie and Diego Ubfal (2020) “Estimating the demand for business training: Evidence from Jamaicaâ€, Mimeo.
- Majurin, Eva (2014) Start and improve your business (SIYB): implementation guide, International Labour Office. Geneva: ILO.
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Mano, Yukichi, Alhassan Iddrisu, Yutaka Yoshino, and Tetsushi Sonobe (2012) “How Can Micro and Small Enterprises in Sub- Saharan Africa Become More Productive? The Impacts of Experimental Basic Managerial Training.†World Development 40 (3): 458–68 McKenzie, David and Anna Luisa Paffhausen (2019) “Small Firm Death in Developing Countriesâ€, Review of Economics and Statistics 101(4): 645-57.
McKenzie, David and Christopher Woodruff (2014) “What are we learning from business training evaluations around the developing world?â€, World Bank Research Observer, 29(1): 48-82 Ozimek, Adam (2013) “There is nothing magical about small businessesâ€, Forbes, January 8 https://www.forbes.com/sites/modeledbehavior/2013/01/08/there-is-nothing-magical-aboutsmall -businesses/#5accbe3b7a09 [accessed 29 May 2020] Peet, Evan, Günther Fink and Wafaie Fawzi (2015) “Returns to education in developing countries: Evidence from living standards and measurement surveysâ€, Economics of Education Review 49: 69-90.
McKenzie, David and Christopher Woodruff (2017) “Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countriesâ€, Management Science, 63(9): 2967-81.
McKenzie, David and Dario Sansone (2019) “Predicting Entrepreneurial Success is Hard: Evidence from a Business Plan Competition in Nigeriaâ€, Journal of Development Economics, 141: article 102369.
- McKenzie, David and Susana Puerto (2020) “Growing Markets through Business Training for Female Entrepreneurs: A Market-Level Randomized Experiment in Kenyaâ€, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, forthcoming.
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Suzuki, Aya, Hoang Nam Vu and Tetsushi Sonobe (2014) “Willingness to pay for managerial training: A case from the knitwear industry in Northern Vietnamâ€, Journal of Comparative Economics 42: 693-707.
- Ubfal, Diego, Irani Arráiz, Diether Beuermann, Michael Frese, Alessandro Maffioli and Daniel Verch (2019) “The Impact of Soft-Skills Training for Entrepreneurs in Jamaicaâ€, IZA Discussion Paper no. 12325.
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Valdivia, Martin (2015) “Business training plus for female entrepreneurship? Short and medium term experimental evidence from Peruâ€, Journal of Development Economics 113:33-51 Van Lieshout, Susanne and Pranati Mehtha (2017) The Next 15 Million: Start and Improve Your Business Global Tracer Study 2011-2015. International Labour Organization: Geneva.