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

Author(s): Robert W Fairlie, Dean S. Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

Publication Date: February 2012

Keyword(s): climate coalitions, climate policy, free riding and game theory

Programme Area(s): Public Economics

Abstract: We use randomized program offers and multiple follow-up survey waves to examine the effects of entrepreneurship training on a broad set of outcomes. Training increases short run business ownership and employment, but there is no evidence of broader or longer run effects. We also test whether training mitigates market frictions by estimating heterogeneous treatment effects. Training does not have strong effects (in either relative or absolute terms) on those most likely to face credit or human capital constraints, or labor market discrimination. Training does have a relatively strong short-run effect on business ownership for those unemployed at baseline, but not at other horizons or for other outcomes.

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Fairlie, R, Karlan, D and Zinman, J. 2012. 'Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=8823