Does the Small Business Programme Benefit Self-Employed Workers? Evidence from Nicaragua

• Tác giả: Booyuel Kim
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 338.64 Size of enterprises
• Thông tin xuất bản: Taylor and Francis, 2025
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 316678
• Chủ đề: 1. BUSINESS TRAINING; 2. DIFFERENCE-IN-DIFFERENCES; 3. PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING; 4. SELF-EMPLOYMENT; 5. SMALL BUSINESS

Tóm tắt

Business and skills training programmes have been a popular social policy intervention to increase productivity of the self-employed in developing countries. We study the Small Business of the Family Economy programme, a government business training programme designed to assist Nicaraguan self-employed workers. Using data from three rounds of the Nicaragua Living Standards Measurement Survey, we employ a difference-in-differences strategy to exploit variation in eligibility for the programme across time and economic activity. Our estimates indicate that the programme does not increase self-employed workers' earnings overall. However, we find heterogeneous treatment effects for female self-employed workers with low educational attainment, which could be explained by increased working months and having a second job.