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Synthesis Report: Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment Synthesis
Topic Area: Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment
Findings:
Evidence indicates that business education plus additional services boost short-term employment, but reduces short term earnings, with impacts on long-term earnings fading over time.
Interventions designed to improve the development of business ideas and increase business development activities have limited evidence on their effectiveness.
Few studies examined outcomes related to formal education and workforce training or public benefit receipt, and those that did found no evidence of impacts.
Studies provide suggestive evidence that education-only interventions improve attitudes toward entrepreneurship.
- Quiroz Becerra, M.V., Schaberg, K., Holman, D., & Hendra, R. (2020). Putting microfinance to the test: 18-month impacts of the Grameen America Program. New York: MDRC.
Topic Area: Low-Income Adults
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness: - Schaberg, K., Quiroz Becerra, M.V., Castro-Cosio, T., Nuñez, S., & Hendra, R. (2019). Microfinance in the United States: Early impacts for the Grameen America Program. New York: MDRC.
Topic Area: Low-Income Adults
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness: - Schaberg, K., Quiroz-Becerra, V., Castro-Cosio, T., Nuñez, S., Hendra, R., (2019). Microfinance in the United States: Early impacts for the Grameen America Program. New York: MDRC.
Topic Area: Low-Income Adults
Study Type: Implementation Analysis
Cunningham, M. K., Biess, J., Emam, D., & Burt., M. R. (2015). Veterans Homelessness Prevention Demonstration evaluation: Final report. Washington, DC: Urban Institute.
Topic Area: Veterans
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:Link, A., & Scott, J. (2012). Employment growth from public support of innovation in small firms. Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 21(7), 655-678.
Topic Area: Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:Watkins, T., Russo, J., & Ochs, J. (2008). Can students in technology entrepreneurship courses help foster start-ups by the unemployed? Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 15(2), 348-364.
Topic Area: Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:Rosenheck, R. A., & Mares, A. S. (2007). Implementation of supported employment for homeless veterans with psychiatric or addiction disorders: Two-year outcomes. Psychiatric Services, 58(3), 325-333.
Topic Area: Veterans
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:Burt, M. (2007). Evaluation of LA’s HOPE: Ending chronic homelessness through employment and housing—Final report. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Department of Labor.
Topic Area: Low-Income Adults
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
