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  • Diskussionspapiere 1920 / 2020

    Subgroup Analysis of Investment Constraints: Evidence from Ugandan Microenterprises

    This study examines the effect of a soft commitment device in the form of a savings goal calendar on savings for small business owners in Kampala, Uganda. We run a randomized controlled trial (RCT) under which the treatment group receives a calendar designed to set savings goals and to make a plan to reach this goal. The control group is given a plain calendar. We find no average effect on savings, ...

    2020| Helke Seitz
  • Diskussionspapiere 1919 / 2020

    Savings Goal Calendars as Soft Commitment Devices: Evidence from Small Business Owners in Uganda

    This study examines the effect of a soft commitment device in the form of a savings goal calendar on savings for small business owners in Kampala, Uganda. We run a randomized controlled trial (RCT) under which the treatment group receives a calendar designed to set savings goals and to make a plan to reach this goal. The control group is given a plain calendar. We find no average effect on savings, ...

    2020| Antonia Grohmann, Tabea Lakemann, Helke Seitz
  • DIW Roundup 114 / 2017

    Microenterprises in Developing Countries: Is there Growth Potential?

    Microenterprises account for a large fraction of employment in developing countries and they are likely to increase in importance in the future. In Sub-Saharan Africa, for example, around 8 million additional jobs need to be created annually in order to cope with the increasing number of new entrants into the labour market (The World Bank, 2013). As microenterprises typically only provide subsistence ...

    2017| Helke Seitz
  • SOEPpapers 890 / 2016

    Locus of Control and Investment in Training

    This paper extends standard models of work-related training by explicitly incorporating workers' locus of control into the investment decision. Our model both differentiates between general and specific training and accounts for the role of workers and firms in training decisions. Workers with an internal locus of control are predicted to engage in more general training than are their external co-workers ...

    2016| Marco Caliendo, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Helke Seitz, Arne Uhlendorff
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Patrilocal Residence and Female Labor Supply: Evidence From Kyrgyzstan

    Many people live in patrilocal societies, which prescribe that women move in with their husbands’ parents, relieve their in-laws from housework, and care for them in old age. This arrangement is likely to have labor market consequences, in particular for women. We study the effect of coresidence on female labor supply in Kyrgyzstan, a strongly patrilocal setting. We account for the endogeneity of coresidence ...

    In: Demography 55 (2018), 6, S. 2181-2203 | Andreas Landmann, Helke Seitz, Susan Steiner
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