The entrepreneurship topic and self-employment area includes reviews of studies examining the effectiveness of interventions that promote individuals’ entrepreneurship and self-employment. CLEAR assessed the strength of causal evidence provided in each study and summarized each study’s design, methods, findings, and the intervention examined.
Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment
Status: Literature reviewed in this topic area currently covers 2005 - 2014.
Synthesis Reports
Synthesis reports look at the research evidence across studies within a topic area. They also highlight gaps in the literature, and suggest areas in which further research is needed.
2046
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.
View full synthesis report: Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment Synthesis
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Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
The study's objective was to examine the impact of Growing America Through Entrepreneurship (GATE) on earnings and employment. This profile focuses on the study at the Maine site. The authors…Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
The study's objective was to examine the impact of Growing America Through Entrepreneurship (GATE) on earnings and employment. This profile focuses on the study at the Minnesota site. The authors…Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
The study's objective was to examine the impact of Growing America Through Entrepreneurship (GATE) on earnings and employment. This profile focuses on the study at the Pennsylvania site. The authors…Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
The study's objective was to examine the impact of Growing America Through Entrepreneurship (GATE II) on earnings and employment. This profile focuses on the study at the North Carolina site. The…Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
The study's objective was to examine the impact of Growing America Through Entrepreneurship (GATE II) on earnings and employment. This profile focuses on the study at the Virginia site. The authors…Study Type: Descriptive Analysis
The study examined the relationship between an entrepreneurship education program for military veterans, VetStart, on entrepreneurship attitudes and behaviors. The VetStart program included 10 weeks…Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
The study’s objective was to examine the impact of the Growing America Through Entrepreneurship (Project GATE) demonstration project, which offered entrepreneurship training and business counseling…Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
The study’s objective was to examine the impacts of the Growing America Through Entrepreneurship (Project GATE) demonstration project, which offered entrepreneurship training and business counseling…Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
The study’s objective was to examine the impact of a microenterprise intervention from Network180, an agency serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, on employment, earnings…Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
The study’s objective was to examine the impact of systematic search training on the number of business ideas participants generated, particularly business ideas inspired by occupational experience…
CLEAR Icon Key
Below is a key for icons used to indicate important details about a study, such as its type, evidence rating, and outcome findings.
High Causal Evidence
Strong evidence the effects are caused by the examined intervention.
Moderate Causal Evidence
Evidence that the effects are caused to some degree by the examined intervention.
Low Causal Evidence
Little evidence that the effects are caused by the examined intervention.
Causal Impact Analysis
Uses quantitative methods to assess the effectiveness of a program, policy, or intervention.
Descriptive Analysis
Describes a program, policy, or intervention using qualitative or quantitative methods.
Implementation Analysis
Examines the implementation of a program, policy, or intervention.
Favorable
The study found at least one favorable impact in the outcome domain, and no unfavorable impacts.
Mixed
The study found some favorable and some unfavorable impacts in the outcome domain.
None
The study found no statistically significant impacts in the outcome domain.
Unfavorable
The study found at least one unfavorable impact in the outcome domain, and no favorable impacts.
Not applicable
Not applicable because no outcomes were examined in the outcome domain.
Favorable - low evidence
The study found at least one favorable impact in the outcome domain, and no unfavorable impacts. The study received a low causal evidence ratings so these findings should be interpreted with caution.
Mixed - low evidence
The study found some favorable and some unfavorable impacts in the outcome domain. The study received a low causal evidence ratings so these findings should be interpreted with caution.
None - low evidence
The study found no statistically significant impacts in the outcome domain. The study received a low causal evidence ratings so these findings should be interpreted with caution.
Unfavorable - low evidence
The study found at least one unfavorable impact in the outcome domain, and no favorable impacts. The study received a low causal evidence ratings so these findings should be interpreted with caution.