Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training

Robert Fairlie, Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

No 8367, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate testable predictions regarding heterogeneous treatment effects from such programs. Using a large randomized evaluation in the United States, we find no strong or lasting effects on those most likely to face credit or human capital constraints, or labor market discrimination. We do find a short-run effect on business ownership for those unemployed at baseline, but this dissipates at longer horizons. Treatment effects on the full sample are also short-term and limited in scope: we do not find effects on business sales, earnings, or employees.

Keywords: self-employment; evaluation; random experiment; training; entrepreneurship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 59 pages
Date: 2014-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ent, nep-exp, nep-hrm and nep-lma
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Published - published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2015, 7 (2), 125 - 161

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Journal Article: Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training (2015)
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Working Paper: Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training (2014)
Working Paper: Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training (2012)
Working Paper: Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training (2012)
Working Paper: Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training (2012)
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