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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.
Benus, J., McConnell, S., Bellotti, J., Shen, T., Fortson, K., & Kahvecioglu, D. (2008). Growing America Through Entrepreneurship: Findings from the evaluation of Project GATE. Columbia, MD: IMPAQ International.
Topic Area: Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:- Earnings and wages-Mod/high-No impactsEarnings and wages
- Employment-Mod/high-No impactsEmployment
- Public benefits receipt-Mod/high-No impactsPublic benefit receipt
Benus, J., Shen, T., Zhang, S., Chan, M., & Hansen, B. (2009). Growing America through entrepreneurship: Final evaluation of Project GATE. Washington, DC: IMPAQ International.
Topic Area: Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:- Earnings and wages-Mod/high-Unfavorable impactsEarnings and wages
- Employment-Mod/high-Favorable impactsEmployment
Kerrick, S., Cumberland, D., Church-Nally, M., & Kemelgor, B. (2014). Military veterans marching towards entrepreneurship: An exploratory mixed methods study. International Journal of Management Education, 12(3), 469-478.
Topic Area: Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment
Study Type: Descriptive Analysis
Fiet, J., Nixon, R., Gupta, M., & Patel, P. (2006). Entrepreneurial discovery by the working poor. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, 11(3), 255-273.
Topic Area: Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis