- the survey was not completed because the business was found to have been closed definitely (and in the endline: the owner was not operating a different enterprise); or

- the business was said by a person knowledgeable on this matter not to be operating anymore, if the owner refused to be re-interviewed or could not be interviewed when survey attempts were made.

With this procedure, we coded _survival_ and _newfirmstart_ from round to round. Given that we were interested in following only the baseline businesses, and not businesses started in the midline, we recoded _survival_ to be capturing survival of the baseline firm. This implied, recoding _survival_ to zero in the endline wave, if the business had been coded as closed and a new firm had been started in the midline wave.

# _Egypt Macroinsurance for Microenterprises Survey (EGMACROINSURANCE)_

The survey was conducted to evaluate the impact of an insurance to protect microenterprise owners against macroeconomic and political shocks in Egypt, described in detail in Groh and McKenzie (2016). The baseline survey was conducted in March 2012 among a sample of clients from Egypt’s largest microfinance institution at particular loan sizes, who were deciding about the renewal of their loans. The sample consisted of 2,980 individuals, with equal numbers assigned to treatment and control. In November 2012, a follow-up survey was conducted, which was able to re-interview 98.8 percent of respondents in the control group and 98.9 percent in the treatment group. We use these two survey waves and are hence able to examine survival over a horizon of approximately 6 months. Using only data from the control group yields 1,441 business owners at baseline, which we include in our sample.

We coded _survival_ to one, if:

- the respondent said that he or she had not closed or sold the business in which he or she worked at the time of the baseline survey in March 2012; or

- the business was said by a person knowledgeable on this matter, to be still being operated by either the business owner, an immediate family member, or by some other person, if the respondent refused to participate in the survey or could not be located.

We coded _survival_ to zero, if:

- the respondent said that he or she had closed or sold the business in which he or she worked at the time of the baseline survey in March 2012; or

- the business was said by a person knowledgeable on this matter, to be closed, if the respondent refused to participate in the survey or could not be located.

If the respondent said that he or she had closed or sold the business in which he or she had worked at the time of the baseline survey in March 2012, we coded _newfirmstart_ to one, if the respondent said that he or she was operating a different business after closing or selling the business previously operated, and had opened this business since March 2012. Otherwise, we coded _newfirmstart_ to zero.

# _Ghana Microenterprises Survey (GHMS)_

The Ghana Microenterprises Survey (GHMS) was conducted to evaluate the impact of cash and in-kind grants to microentrepreneurs in urban Ghana. Details of the intervention and study design are described in Fafchamps et al. (2014). The baseline survey was conducted in October and November 2009, surveying a representative sample of 907 microenterprise owners in urban Ghana, in particular in the cities of Accra and Tema. A second pre-treatment survey of these firms was conducted in February 2009 to eliminate firms most likely to attrit, yielding a final baseline sample of 793 firms for the experiment, of which 397 were assigned to the control 47