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

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Fairlie, Robert W.; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Santa Cruz; Yale University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Dartmouth College
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7731
• DOI: 10.1257/pol.20120337
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 125-161
• 关键词: self-employment; BUSINESS

摘要

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.