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Detailed Information

Country	Country: Tanzania
GDP per capita	687
Context details	Microcredit microentrepreneurs clients in Promotion of Rural Initiative and Development Enterprises (PRIDE) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, that volunteered to participate
Age	average: 36.3

2. Intervention

Implementation year	2008
Implementer	Local
Duration (months)	6
Cost	N/A
Intervention details	Basic business concepts, management practices and noncognitive abilities

Evaluation design	Randomized evaluation
Cluster definition	N/A

Sample	Outcome	Test	Source Table	Observations	Statistics on Effects
Complete sample	Operation practices	Marketing index (0-1): Index of three marketing initiatives	5	195	Coeff: 0.16; SE: 0.06
Complete sample	Record keeping	Record keeping: Indicator variable taking the value one if the entrepreneur reports keeping records	5	195	Coeff: 0.27; SE: 0.09

Study	Berge, L. I. O., Bjorvatn, K., & Tungodden, B. (2015). Human and financial capital for microenterprise development: Evidence from a field and lab experiment. Management Science, 61(4), 707-722.