When is capital enough to get female micro enterprises growing? Evidence from a randomised experiment in Ghana 2010-2015

The data collected from the experiment consists of variations in sizes of businesses owned by women and men. It also consists of the profits from their respective businesses following the type of capital injection. Standard models of investment predict that credit-constrained firms should grow rapidly when given additional capital, and that how this capital is provided should not affect decisions to invest in the business or consume the capital. In this project, we randomly gave cash and in-kind grants to male- and female-owned micro-enterprises in urban Ghana for women running subsistence enterprises to assess the differences in profit gains from either treatments.