Please use this form to submit your study for inclusion into our database. It will be checked by a member of the Innovation Growth Lab team, who may be in contact to ask for more information. Your email address * Your name * Title * The name of the study Short summary A brief description of the project's goals and its current state Abstract <p>Entrepreneurs in developing countries face a series of diverse constraints to growth, including lack of access to business skills, markets, and finance. The binding constraints vary from firm to firm, implying that the returns to possible interventions are likely to be heterogeneous. Rather than offering similar solutions to every firm, policymakers may therefore get better value for money if they can offer less expensive interventions to a broad range of entrepreneurs (top-of-the-funnel), then screen who is funneled ahead so the more expensive interventions are targeted towards a narrower set of firms that would benefit most from them (bottom-of-the-funnel).</p> <p>This study aims to test the effectiveness of such a funneling approach in Malawi. Three stages of interventions will be offered (personal initiative training (S1), a managerial capital program (S2) and interventions related to access to markets (S3). A randomized controlled field experiment will assign firms to five different groups. One treatment arm will be assigned to a funneling group and offered to participate in S1 to S3 using a graduate approach where only a subset of those who meet a given score proceeds from one stage to the next stage of training. The other three treatment arms will be offered to participate in one, two or three stages without funneling. Finally a control group will not be offered to participate in any of these stages during the study period but provided with general managerial information (also provided to the other arms).</p> <p>More information about the approach can be found <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/articles/funneling-support-to-promising-enterprises-in-developing-countries/#:~:text=A%20'funneling'%20approach%20can%20address%20multiple%20constraints&amp;text=Firms%20that%20show%20improvement%E2%80%94as,one%2Don%2Done%20consulting">here</a>.</p> The full abstract of the study, if available Links https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/12116 Links to any published papers and related discussions Authors * Affiliations Academic and other institutes that the authors of the study are members of Delivery partner Organisations involved in delivering the trial, if appropriate Year Year Year199419951996199719981999200020012002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026 Month MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec Day Day12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 Journal Journal publishing the study, if available Publication stage * Working Paper Published Ongoing Research Forthcoming Discussion Paper Research theme * Entrepreneurship Innovation Business Growth Country Country or countries where this study took place. Topics What sort of topics does the study cover? Sample attributes Hypotheses / research question Sample Trial population and sample selection Number of treatment groups Size of treatment groups Size of control group Unit of analysis Clustered? Yes No Cluster details Trial attributes Treatment description Rounds of data collection Baseline data collection and method Data collection method and data collected Evaluation Outcome variables Results Intervention costs Cost benefit ratio Reference Citation for use in academic references
