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Detailed Information

Country	Country: Uganda
GDP per capita	810
Context details	Students in their sixth (last) year of secondary school in Uganda that volunteered to participate
Age	average: 20

2. Intervention

Implementation year	2013
Implementer	Local
Duration (months)	0
Cost	N/A
Intervention details	Business planning, market research, taxes and legal responsibilities, financial planning, marketing, business plan + accounting, financial statements, cost structure, business ideas, management, sales, track of business operations, human resources, finance

Evaluation design	Randomized evaluation
Cluster definition	N/A

Sample	Outcome	Test	Source Table	Observations	Statistics on Effects
Complete sample	Profits	Monthly profits: Logs	6	2475	Coeff: 0.24; SE: 0.10

Study	Chioda, L., Contreras-Loya, D., Gertler, P., & Carney, D. (2021). Making Entrepreneurs: Returns to Training Youth in Hard Versus Soft Business Skills (No. w28845). National Bureau of Economic Research.