The impact of consulting services on small and medium enterprises: evidence from a randomized trial in Mexico (English)

Using a randomized evaluation with 432 Mexican small and medium enterprises, this paper shows that access to management consulting led to better firm performance: one-year results show positive effects on return-on-assets and total factor productivity. Owners also had large increases in "entrepreneurial spirit" (an entrepreneurs' managerial confidence index). Using Mexican social security data, the analysis finds a large increase in the number of...
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Bruhn,Miriam; Karlan,Dean S.; Schoar,Antoinette.

The impact of consulting services on small and medium enterprises: evidence from a randomized trial in Mexico (English). Impact Evaluation series ; no. IE 95|Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 6508 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/516471468278741470

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