Reproducibility package for Persistent yet Ameliorable Shocks to Female Entrepreneurship: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

While female entrepreneurs face multiple obstacles, it is unclear whether gender gaps worsen during economic crises: women may be more impacted than men due to those existing obstacles and restrictive social norms, but they may also be less exposed due to their specialized sectors of operation, or if a crisis flattens everyone together. In a large sample of partnered Kenyan youth microentrepreneurs, we document more severe consequences two years after the COVID-19 crisis for female entrepreneurs across various outcomes: business ownership; sales and profits; adaptability; time-use; and intrahousehold decision-making. However, the impact of randomized grants significantly offsets these declines, demonstrating a strong mitigating impact for both women and men. The grants increase women's labor supply, at the expense of domestic work, leisure time, and childcare hours, while they have no significant impacts on men's time allocation.