Microenterprise Growth and the Flypaper Effect, Randomized Experiment 2008-2010

Ghana, 2008 - 2010

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GHA_2008_MGFERE_v01_M

DOI

https://doi.org/10.48529/0gsj-b583

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David McKenzie, Marcel Fafchamps, Simon Quinn, Christopher Woodruff

Collection(s)

Impact Evaluation Surveys

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Apr 23, 2015

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Reason for self-employment: Industry is socially acceptable for a male/female (personal_10j)

Data file: GhanaBaselineSingle_la

Overview

Valid: 881

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 1610

End: 1635

Width: 26

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question

We would now like to understand why you chose to be self-employed in [nature of business], instead of other self-employment.
Because it is socially acceptable for a [male/female] to work in this industry. (personal_10j)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
No, this was not a reason.		712	80.8%
Yes, this was a reason.		169	19.2%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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