Contains variables constructed from the application to the business plan submission that were not previously provided in the public use version, but which are needed for replicating the machine-learning approach in the paper “Predicting Entrepreneurial Success is Hard: Evidence from a Business Plan Competition in Nigeria”. Examples include constructed variables on whether the business is named after the owner, characteristics of some of the open-ended responses (e.g. length of response, whether it mentions competitive threat, whether it is in all caps), and when individuals registered for the competition.
Cases: | 2492 |
Variables: | 15 |