Youth Enterprise With Innovation in Nigeria (YouWiN!) Program Impact Evaluation 2011-2016 - Nigeria

Abstract
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The Youth Enterprise With Innovation in Nigeria (YouWiN!) program is a large-scale national business plan competition for young entrepreneurs in Nigeria. The program is a collaboration between Nigeria's Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Communication Technology, and the Ministry of Youth Development with support from Department for International Development (DFID) and the World Bank. The program's objective is to encourage innovation and job creation through the establishment of new businesses and expansion of existing businesses.

The competition attracted almost 24,000 applicants. Random assignment was used to select some of the winners from a pool of semi-finalists, with US$36 million in randomly allocated grant funding providing each winner with an average of US$50,000.

The follow-up surveys targeted 3,139 individuals comprised of four groups who had applied to the first round of the YouWiN! competition. Baseline data was collected in December 2011 - January 2012. Four follow-up surveys were taken, approximately at yearly intervals after individuals had applied for the program. The last, fourth round, was conducted in July - November 2016.

Geographic coverage
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National coverage

Analysis unit
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- Entrepreneur
- Firm

Universe
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Individuals in one of four categories of applicants to the YouWin business plan competition: I) winners in the treatment group; II) control group; III) non-experimental winners; IV) regression-discontinuity sample

Kind of data
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Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure
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The follow-up surveys targeted a total of 3,139 individuals comprised of four groups who had applied to the first round of the YouWiN! competition:
- 475 individuals selected as national or zonal winners of the competition, based on having the highest absolute scores on their business plans, or highest scores for their region. These are referred to as the national and zonal winner sample. Note this consists of all national and zonal winners except for the 5 disqualified plans.
- 729 individuals who were selected as ordinary winners of the competition through a random draw among individuals with the next highest scores. These are referred to as the experimental treatment sample. This does include individuals originally allocated to treatment who were subsequently disqualified.
- 1,112 individuals who had similar business plan scores as the ordinary winners, but were not selected in the random draw. These are referred to as the experimental control sample. Note 9 of these actually received treatment.
- 823 individuals who applied for the YouWiN! competition and had first round application scores just on either side of the cut-offs used to select people to attend the 4-day business plan training course. This group is referred to as the regression-discontinuity booster sample.

Random selection of the ordinary winners was designed as follows:
- First, among the semi-finalists, all those with business plan total scores below 30 were dropped, to maintain a minimum standard. This reduced the pool from 1,920 to 1,841 firms.
- Then a two-step stratified randomization was conducted in Stata to choose the ordinary winners.

Mode of data collection
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Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]

Research instrument
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Four rounds of questionnaires attached

Response rate
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74% follow-up 1
89% follow-up 2
83% follow-up 3
79% follow-up 4

摘要
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“尼日利亚青年创新企业计划”（YouWiN!）是一项针对尼日利亚年轻创业者的国家级大型商业计划竞赛。该计划由尼日利亚财政部、通讯技术与青年发展部联合发起，并得到国际发展部（DFID）和世界银行的资助。该计划的宗旨在于，通过新企业的创立和现有企业的扩张，激发创新精神和促进就业。

该竞赛吸引了近24,000名申请者。采用随机分配的方法，从半决赛选手中选出部分获胜者，并为每位获胜者提供了总计3,600万美元的随机分配的资助，平均每人获得50,000美元。

后续调查针对3,139名个体进行了，他们组成了四个不同的群体，均曾申请参加YouWiN!竞赛的第一轮。基线数据收集于2011年12月至2012年1月。在个人申请该计划后，大约每年进行一次四次后续调查。最后一次，即第四次调查，于2016年7月至11月进行。

地理覆盖范围
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全国

分析单元
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- 创业者
- 企业

总体
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参与YouWin商业计划竞赛的四类申请人中的个体：I) 处理组中的获胜者；II) 对照组；III) 非实验性获胜者；IV) 回归不连续性样本

数据类型
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样本调查数据 [ssd]

抽样程序
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后续调查针对总计3,139名个体，这些个体分为四个群体，均曾申请参加YouWiN!竞赛的第一轮：
- 475名个体被选为全国或区域冠军，基于他们在商业计划中的绝对得分最高，或其所在地区的得分最高。这些个体被称为全国和区域冠军样本。请注意，这包括了所有全国和区域冠军，但不包括5个被取消资格的计划。
- 729名个体通过在得分次高的个体中进行随机抽取的方式，被选为普通获胜者。这些个体被称为实验性处理样本。这包括最初被分配到处理组但后来被取消资格的个体。
- 1,112名个体与普通获胜者具有相似的商业计划得分，但在随机抽取中未被选中。这些个体被称为实验性对照组。请注意，其中9名个体实际上接受了处理。
- 823名个体申请参加YouWiN!竞赛，并在第一轮申请中的得分恰好位于用于选择参加为期4天的商业计划培训课程的分界线两侧。这个群体被称为回归不连续性增强样本。

普通获胜者的随机选择设计如下：
- 首先，在半决赛选手中，所有商业计划总分低于30分的选手被淘汰，以维持最低标准。这将从1,920家减少到1,841家企业。
- 然后在Stata中进行两步分层随机化，以选择普通获胜者。

数据收集方式
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计算机辅助个人访谈 [capi]

研究工具
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附有四轮问卷

应答率
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后续调查1：74%
后续调查2：89%
后续调查3：83%
后续调查4：79%