Microenterprise Investment and Kinship Demands

This project aims to study the effect of pressure to share income with relatives on investment. Specifically, this experiment provides small firm owners in Tanzania with capital grants, which will allow the researcher to measure their returns to capital.

Before giving these grants, each participant was given the choice between receiving some money and having it announced to others, or receiving a different amount in private. This gives the researcher a measure of their kinship request rate, and being able to test whether those who hide also make different investment decisions.

Client:

University of British Columbia

Location

Dar es Salaam and Dodoma regions.

Service Line

Impact Evaluation

 

Funded by:

University of British Columbia

 

Date:

March 2019 to May 2020

Sector:

Business

 

MISSR Leading Roles

In this assignment, we were responsible for the following activities

  1. Preparation and programming electronic survey instruments (including translation)
  2. Hiring and training survey enumerators;
  3. Carrying out a piloting study, and baseline survey,
  4. Rolling out a intervention of cash transfer to subset of our selected sample,
  5. Carrying out about 4 phases of phone follow-up rounds to both treated units between August 2019 to March 2020
  6. Conducting data quality control and field work monitoring,
  7. Carrying out an endline survey, and
  8. Data processing and cleaning

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