Reproducibility package for Persistent yet Ameliorable Shocks to Female Entrepreneurship: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Overview
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.
Reproducibility Package
| Repository name | URI |
|---|---|
| Reproducible Research Repository (World Bank) | https://reproducibility.worldbank.org |
Reproducibility
~5 minutes runtime
Paper exhibits were reproduced in a computer with the following specifications:
• OS: Windows 10 Enterprise
• Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6226R CPU @ 2.90GHz 2.90 GHz (2 processors)
• Memory available: 32 GB
• Software version: Stata version 18 MP
- Once available, download the raw dataset from the Microdata Library and save it in the Data folder with the appropriate filename.
- To run the script, new users need to update the directory path in do file GenderCovidReplicationTablesFigures.
- Since the .dta files are not currently included in the package, the package includes the outputs to allow potential replicators to review the code and results. The dataset will become available through the World Bank Microdata Library at a later date.
Data
Some data is confidential and has not been included in the reproducibility package. Data will be published in the World Bank Microdata Library in the coming weeks.
Description
| Author | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| Francisco Campos | World Bank | fcampos@worldbank.org |
| Maria Hernandez-de-Benito | University of Alicante | mhernandez.debenito@ua.es |
| Julian Jamison | University of Exeter | j.jamison@exeter.ac.uk |
| Abla Safir | World Bank | asafir@worldbank.org |
| Bilal Zia | World Bank | bzia@worldbank.org, |
We are deeply grateful to our counterparts in the Government of Kenya, in the Micro and Small Enterprises Authority (MSEA) and in the State Department for Youth (SDY), in particular Olivia Ouko, Augustine Mayabi, Christine Wanjira, Nobby Macharia, Samuel Matonda, Caroline Kioko, Carol Kungu, Lydiah Musimi, Christine Wairimu, Magdalene Mbiti, Raphael Koome, and Arnold Ouma. We thank different colleagues who have worked on the design or implementation of the interventions as well as to advance KYEOP in general, in particular Yanina Domenella, Cecilia Paradi-Guilford, Cornelia Tesliuc, Michael Munavu, Indhira Santos, and Kevin Heraniah. We also thank Kie Riedel for outstanding field coordination as well as Naomi Kimani, Georges Poquillon, Aspasea McKenna, and Moulik Shrivastava for field support as well as Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) for data collection. Funding from the World Bank Group’s Umbrella Facility for Gender Equality (UFGE), the Competitiveness Policy Evaluation Lab (ComPEL), the Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL), the Africa Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice (SPJ), the Africa Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice (FCI), the Research Support Budget (RSB), IPA, and IPA’s Women’s Work, Entrepreneurship, and Skilling Initiative funded through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are gratefully acknowledged. Maria Hernandez-de-Benito acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation Grant PID2021-124237NB-I00. Thi RCT was registered as AEARCTR-000609
2024-10
Scope and coverage
| Location | Code |
|---|---|
| Kenya | KEN |
Disclaimer
The materials in the reproducibility packages are distributed as they were prepared by the staff of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/the World Bank. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this event do not necessarily reflect the views of the World Bank, the Executive Directors of the World Bank, or the governments they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the materials included in the reproducibility package.
Access and rights
| Name | URI |
|---|---|
| Modified BSD3 | https://opensource.org/license/bsd-3-clause/ |
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| Maria Hernandez-de-Benito | University of Alicante | mhernandez.debenito@ua.es |
| Reproducibility WBG | World Bank | reproducibility@worldbank.org |
Information on metadata
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reproducibility WBG | DIME | World Bank - Development Impact Department | Verification and preparation of metadata |
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