Can Business Owners form Accurate Counterfactuals? : Eliciting Treatment and Control Beliefs about Their Outcomes in the Alternative Treatment Status

Can Business Owners form Accurate Counterfactuals? : Eliciting Treatment and Control Beliefs about Their Outcomes in the Alternative Treatment Status

A survey of participants in a large-scale business plan competition experiment, in which winners received an average of US$50,000 each, is used to elicit beliefs about what the outcomes would have been in the alternative treatment status. Participa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McKenzie, David
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:
EXPENDITURE
ADVERTISING EXPENDITURES
PHONE
EMPLOYMENT
GRANT
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
FIRMS
IMPACT EVALUATION
BUSINESS PLAN
EXISTING BUSINESSES
GEOGRAPHIC REGION
RESULTS
SALES
BUSINESS INVESTMENT
TIME PERIOD
INFORMATION
ENTREPRENEURS
EXPENDITURES
ENTERPRISE
IMPACTS
DISTRIBUTION
COST
BUSINESS GROWTH
PRIVATE SECTOR
OWNERSHIP
BRANCH
REPORTING
TRAINING COURSE
COMPUTER
OPEN ACCESS
RESULT
ADVERTISING
SECURITY
BUSINESSES
BUSINESS
BUSINESS PLANS
BUSINESS OWNERSHIP
INNOVATION
FIRM
SMALL FIRMS
BUSINESS TRAINING
PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
PROFITS
TARGET
ACCOUNT
GRANTS
TELEPHONE
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/05/26363171/can-business-owners-form-accurate-counterfactuals-eliciting-treatment-control-beliefs-outcomes-alternative-treatment-status
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24505

Internet

http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/05/26363171/can-business-owners-form-accurate-counterfactuals-eliciting-treatment-control-beliefs-outcomes-alternative-treatment-status
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24505

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