Household Matters: Revisiting the Returns to Capital among Female Micro-entrepreneurs

Arielle Bernhardt, Erica Field, Rohini Pande, Natalia Rigol

NBER Working Paper No. 23358
Issued in April 2017

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We are grateful to Patrick Agte, Sitaram Mukherjee and Sreelakshmi Papineni for excellent research assistance, to the staff of VFS for their cooperation and support, Center for Microfinance at IFMR-Lead for hosting this study and to NSF, PEDL and WAPPP at Harvard for financial support. We thank David McKenzie, Ben Roth, Simone Schaner and Chris Woodruff for data assistance and comments. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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