Evaluating the Impact of Entrepreneurship Edutainment in Egypt: An Experimental Approach

Ghada Barsoum; Bruno Crépon; Drew Gardiner; Bastien Michel; William Parienté

doi:10.1111/ecca.12391

Evaluating the Impact of Entrepreneurship Edutainment in Egypt: An Experimental Approach

Ghada Barsoum
, Bruno Crépon
, Drew Gardiner
, Bastien Michel
, William Parienté

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Abstract

We measure the impact of an edutainment television programme specifically designed to promote entrepreneurship among young adult viewers in Egypt. We implemented a randomized controlled trial following a non-symmetric encouragement design and using cheap scalable incentives to measure the impact of the intervention. While the impact of the show appears otherwise more limited, we find that the good performance of female contestants improved viewers’—in particular, men’s—general perceptions of female entrepreneurs. However, despite the apparent difficulties faced by women in setting up a business, the show also led viewers to think that discrimination against women was not as important as they had previously believed, highlighting the possible distorting effect of media content.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	82-109
Number of pages	28
Journal	Economica
Volume	89
Issue number	353
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12391
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2022
Externally published	Yes

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