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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: - Mukherjee Das, A. (2019). Three essays on immigration policy and labor market outcomes in the U.S. (Ph.D., Middle Tennessee State University). ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (2292188664).
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
Hendra, R., Greenberg, D. H., Hamilton, G., Oppenheim, A. Pennington, A. Schaberg, K., and Tessler, B. L. (2016). Encouraging evidence on a sector-focused advancement strategy. New York: MDRC. [Per Scholas]
Topic Area: Registered Apprenticeship and Work-Based Learning
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:Craig, C. A., Allen, M. W., Reid, M. F., Riemenschneider, C. K., & Armstrong, D. J. (2013). The impact of career mentoring and psychosocial mentoring on affective organizational commitment, job involvement, and turnover intention. Administration & Society, 45(8), 949–973. doi:10.1177/0095399712451885
Topic Area: Registered Apprenticeship and Work-Based Learning
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:Long, Z., Buzzanell, P., Kokini, K., Wilson, R., Batra, J., & Anderson, L. (2013). Exploring women engineering faculty’s mentoring networks. Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Washington, DC.
Topic Area: Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math (STEM)
Study Type: Descriptive Analysis
Smith, J., Lewis, K., Hawthorne, L., & Hodges, S. (2013). When trying hard isn’t natural: Women’s belonging with and motivation for male-dominated STEM fields as a function of effort expenditure concerns. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 39(2), 131-143. [Study 3]
Topic Area: Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math (STEM)
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:Kniola, D., Chang, M., & Olsen, D. (2012). Transformative graduate education programs: An analysis of impact on STEM and non-STEM Ph.D. completion. Higher Education, 63(4), 473–495. doi:10.1007/s10734-011-9453-8
Topic Area: Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math (STEM)
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:
