MeshOmondi/digital-business-intervention-iv-evaluation

Instrumental Variables impact evaluation of a digital business intervention among women-owned micro and small enterprises in Kisumu County, Kenya. # Impact of Digital Business Intervention on Women-Owned Small and Micro Enterprises ## Project Overview This project evaluates the impact of a digital business intervention on women-owned micro and small enterprises in Kisumu County, Kenya. The analysis focuses primarily on whether participation in the intervention improves **monthly business revenue**. ## Research Objective The main objective is to estimate the causal effect of participation in the digital business intervention on business performance. The primary research outcome is: - Monthly Business Revenues Additional business outcomes considered include profit, savings, loans, and digital payment adoption. ## Evaluation Methodology The project applies an **Instrumental Variables (IV) / Two-Stage Least Squares (2SLS)** approach to estimate the treatment effect. The key variables are: | Role | Variable | |---|---| | Primary outcome | `Monthly_Business_Revenues` | | Treatment | `Treatment_T` | | Instrument | `Encouraged_Z` | The analysis also compares the IV estimates with conventional OLS estimates. ## Analysis The Stata analysis includes: - Data preparation and cleaning - Treatment and instrument checks - First-stage analysis - Reduced-form analysis - IV/2SLS estimation - OLS versus IV comparison - Baseline balance checks - Robustness checks - Sector-level heterogeneity analysis - Missing-value assessment - Panel observation completeness checks - Data visualization ## Tools - **Stata** — econometric analysis and impact evaluation - **Excel** — dataset preparation - **KoboToolbox** — questionnaire design and data collection - **GitHub** — version control and project documentation ## Project Outputs The repository contains: - Stata do-files - Dataset - Analysis outputs - Data visualizations - Survey questionnaire documentation ## Data Note The dataset used in this repository is **simulated data created for academic and impact-evaluation training purposes**. It does not represent actual su …