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Full esteem ahead? : mindset-oriented business training in Ethiopia

Alibhai, Salman; Buehren, Niklas; Frese, Michael; … - 2019

Is there a mindset gap holding women back in business? Can entrepreneurship training instill a set of attitudes, behaviors, and strategies that are thought to underpin success in business such as motivation, perseverance, and self-confidence? This study conducted two randomized controlled trials...

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Gender bias in SME lending : experimental evidence from Turkey

Alibhai, Salman; Donald, Aletheia; Goldstein, Markus P.; … - 2019

Gender disparities in small and medium-size enterprise lending exist around the world and impede the growth of millions … of women-led firms. This paper examines a potential driver of these disparities: gender-biased loan officers. Officer … reducing gender biased loan allocations by 6 percent. The results suggest that loan officers may use gender bias as a heuristic …

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Are you being asked? : impacts of respondent selection on measuring employment

Kilic, Talip; Van den Broeck, Goedele; Koolwal, Gayatri; … - 2020

economic growth and designing well-targeted, gender-sensitive labor policies. How respondent selection in household and labor …

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Dynamics of off-farm employment in Sub-Saharan Africa : a gender perspective

Van den Broeck, Goedele; Kilic, Talip - 2018

-farm employment and continued employment; and conducts the analysis by gender and rural/urban location. A significant share of the …-farm enterprises being more common in Nigeria and Tanzania. The population weighted cross-country gender difference in off …-farm employment and continued employment are country- and gender-specific, with demographic factors, occurrence of shocks, and job …

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Getting the (gender-disaggregated) lay of the land : impact of survey respondent selection on measuring land ownership and rights

Kilic, Talip; Moylan, Heather; Koolwal, Gayatri - 2020

Foundational to the monitoring of international goals on land ownership and rights are the household survey respondents who provide the required individual-disaggregated data. Leveraging two national surveys in Malawi that differed in their approach to respondent selection, this study shows...

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