Projects

Bangladesh:

Evaluation of Female Supervisor Training Programs in the Bangladesh Apparel Sector

Researchers: Chris Woodruff, Rocco Macchiavello

Chile:

The Effect of Access to Finance on the Alleviation of Natural Disaster Consequences*

Researcher: Alejandro Drexler

Colombia:

Experimenting for Entrepreneurship

Researcher: Antoinette Schoar

Before and After Comparison of Innovative Mobile Applications for Micro Retailers in Colombia*

Researcher: Antoinette Schoar

Supply Chain Financing for Dairy Farmers

Researcher: Antoinette Schoar

Using Internal Risk Models to determine changes in committee behaviors (MIR)

Researcher: Antoinette Schoar, Daniel Paravisini

Dominican Republic:

The Effect of Bank Competition at the Bank Branch Level*

Researcher: Alejandro Drexler

Ghana:

Are SMEs Leaving Returns to Scale on the Table?*

Reseachers: Gharad Bryan, Margaret McConnell

Identifying Gazelles among Micro and Small Enterprises in Ghana

Researchers: Chris Woodruff, Marcel Fafchamps

India:

Alternative Credit Scores for SMEs

Researcher: Antoinette Schoar

Analyzing the Impact of Availability of Finance for Dealers in Second Hand Vehicle Market

Researcher: Antoinette Schoar, Raj Iyer

Boundaries of Hold-up

Researchers: Antoinette Schoar, Raj Iyer

Relationship Banking for SMEs

Researcher: Antoinette Schoar

Relationship Contracting

Researchers: Antoinette Schoar, Raj Iyer

The Entrepreneurial Choice: To invest in your small business or accept a job with a steady wage

Researcher: Antoinette Schoar

The History of Growth of Micro, Small, and Medium Sized Enterprises*

Researchers: Natalia Rigol, Erica Field, and Rohini Pande

The Impact of Credit Constraints on the Foreign Exchange Earnings of a Firm*

Researcher: Mudit Kapoor

Indonesia

The Emergence of Transformative Entrepreneurship*

Researcher: Russell Toth

Liberia

Improving SME Market Access via Local Content Marketplace Services in Africa*

Researcher: Matthew Bird

Middle East and North Africa Region

Impact of Improved Access to Capital on Employment Generation in SME Clients

Researchers: Josh Lerner, Antoinette Schoar

Peru:

Testing a 3rd Party Contract Enforcement Solution in a Peruvian Textile Cluster

Researcher: Matthew Bird

Philippines:

Returns to Consulting for SMEs

Researchers: Dean Karlan, Greg Fischer

Scotland:

Mentoring, Business Advisory Services and Access to Finance for Disadvantaged Entrepreneurs

Researcher: Greg Fischer

South Africa

Managerial Capital and Business Transformation in Emerging Markets

Researchers: Stephen Anderson-Macdonald, Rajesh Chandy, Bilal Zia

Sri Lanka:

Business Skills and Other Constraints to Growth in Sri Lanka

Researchers: David McKenzie, Suresh De Mel, Chris Woodruff

Uganda:

Network Effects in SME Clusters

Researchers: Bilal Zia, Antoinette Schoar

Returns to Consulting for Women Entrepreneurs

Researchers: Dean Karlan, Greg Fischer, Meredith Startz

*These research projects do not follow a randomized controlled trial (RCT) design. They are small-scale studies or pilots that either provide background for scaling up to an RCT or study a relevant question through a different research design.

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Funding Partners

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is a private nonpartisan foundation that works to harness the power of entrepreneurship and innovation to grow economies and improve human welfare.

The John Templeton Foundation serves as a philanthropic catalyst for discoveries relating to the Big Questions of human purpose, including exploring effective ways to empower the world’s poor to make progress towards prosperity.

SEVEN (Social Equity Venture Fund) is a virtual non-profit entity run by entrepreneurs whose strategy is to markedly increase the rate of innovation and diffusion of enterprise-based solutions to poverty. It does this by targeted investment that fosters thought leadership through books, films and websites; supporting role models - whether they are entrepreneurs or innovative firms - in developing nations; and shaping a new discourse in government, the press and the academy around private-sector innovation, prosperity and progressive human values.