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Girls Empowered by Microfranchising: Estimating the Impacts of Microfranchising on Young Women in Nairobi

author(s) Brudevold-Newman, A. - Honorati, M. - Jakiela, P. - Ozier, O.
from UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
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regions
  • Northern Europe
  • Europe
  • World
  • Eastern Africa
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Africa
citation

Brudevold-Newman, Andrew, Maddalena Honorati, Pamela Jakiela, and Owen Ozier (2017) “Girls Empowered by Micro franchising: Estimating the Impacts of Micro franchising on Young Women in Nairobi,” GLM LIC Policy Brief No. 12

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Abstract

The authors directly compare two promising approaches to increasing sustainable entrepreneurship among young women: a multifaceted entrepreneurship promotion program and a comparably valued unconditional cash grant. Both interventions increased entrepreneurship in the long-term and increased income in the medium-term, but impacts on income do not persist in the long-term. The higher cost of the multifaceted program arm and the similarity of impacts across the two treatments indicates that the cash grants are a more cost effective way of increasing entrepreneurship in this context. The lack of sustained impacts on income suggests that self-employment may not be the solution to high youth underemployment. The Growth and Labour Markets in Low Income Countries Programme is a joint collaboration between the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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