_Empowerment index_ is the sum of the following outcomes: Compelled to spend money on husband or family (coded 1 if they answer no); not the only person with access to their firms’ money (coded as 1 if only they have access); has some money which they have sole control over and can spend how they like; do not need anyone’s permission to visit a friend, to travel to sell a business asset, to travel to a new location to work, to stay overnight in a different town, to work later than usual hours, to take out a loan, or to spend money on an investment for their business.

_Life Ladder Today_ and _Life Ladder 5 Years_ are measured by a standard 10-step Cantril ladder, where individuals are asked to imagine the best (step 10) and worst (step 1) possible lives for themselves, and then say which step represents their current position and where they will be in 5 years.

_Mental health_ is measured by the MHI-5 index of Veit and Ware (1983), coded so higher scores denote better mental health.

_Household durables index_ is the first principal component of dummy variables for ownership of 10 household assets (iron and heaters, fridge or freezer, fan, sewing machine, radio or CD player, TV or DVD player, motorcycle or scooter, car or van, oven, and gas cooker) and of the number of cows owned and number of goats owned.

_Number of new entrants_ is the number of firms operating in the market outside of our experimental sample that have opened since the baseline survey and training intervention.

_Total other firms_ is the total number of other firms operating in the market outside of our experimental sample (new entrants plus those pre-existing firms that were not included due to being absent from the market at the time of listing, or being dropped by our eligibility filters).

_Other firm profits_ is the total profits in the market of the other firms outside the survey sample.

_Weekly customers_ is the number of customers the firm has in the past week, truncated at the 99<sup>th</sup> percentile. This is coded as zero for firms that are closed. When aggregated to the market level, this forms _Total market customers_ .

_Business knowledge_ is the number correct out of 7 questions intended to measure whether the firm owner can calculate sales, expenses, and profits.

_Business practices_ is the proportion of 26 practices in marketing, record-keeping, buying and stock control, and financial planning used by the firm (McKenzie and Woodruff, 2015). This is only measured for firms that are surviving at the time of the survey.

_Worked with a mentor_ is a dummy variable for whether they have worked with a mentor to try to improve their business in the past year (only asked in round 4).

_Entrepreneurial self-efficacy_ is the number out of 10 of business activities that the owner rates themselves as “very confident” in their ability to do (only asked in round 2). This includes entrepreneurial tasks like “estimate customer demand for a new product,” “persuade a bank to lend you money” and “identify good employees.” _Get Ahead Attitudes_ is the sum of scores on 11 questions designed to measure attitudes Get Ahead training is meant to encourage. These are scored 1 through 5, where 1=strongly disagree, 5 = 44