TY - JOUR ID - 59612 TI - An Impact Estimator Using Propensity Score Matching: People’s Business Credit Program to Micro Entrepreneurs in Indonesia JO - Iranian Economic Review JA - IER LA - en SN - 1026-6542 AU - Farida, Farida AU - Siregar, Hermanto AU - Nuryartono, Nunung AU - Intan K.P, Eka AD - Faculty of Economics, Persada YAI University, Jakarta, Indonesia. AD - Department of Economics, Bogor Agricultural University, Bogor, Indonesia. AD - Department of Resource and Enviromental Economics, Bogor Agricultural University, Bogor, Indonesia. Y1 - 2016 PY - 2016 VL - 20 IS - 4 SP - 599 EP - 615 KW - Keywords: Micro financing KW - Households KW - poverty KW - Cross-sectional KW - Propensity Score Matching. JEL Classification: F61 KW - H31 KW - I32 KW - C21 DO - 10.22059/ier.2016.59612 N2 - P eople’s business credit program (KUR) has been launched to alleviate poverty through provision of micro financing to micro entrepreneurs in Indonesia This study aims to estimate the impact of KUR program using cross-sectional data and propensity score matching technique (PSM). The survey was conducted on 332 household entrepreneurs, consisting of 155 KUR receivers and 177 non-KUR receivers. Results show that KUR has impacts on increasing profits, total revenues, number of employees, and asset ownerships. KUR program also has impacted on reduction of food spending share. As such, KUR can play an important role to alleviate poverty and unemployment.   UR - https://ier.ut.ac.ir/article_59612.html L1 - https://ier.ut.ac.ir/article_59612_ca1e97c873b51e2391cde184d0e5f549.pdf ER -