Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training
通过美国大规模随机实验，发现补贴创业培训对面临信贷或人力资本约束者无显著长期效果，仅对失业者短期提升创业率，但长期消失。
Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate testable predictions regarding heterogeneous treatment effects from such programs. Using a large randomized evaluation in the United States, we find no strong or lasting effects on those most likely to face credit or human capital constraints, or labor market discrimination. We do find a short-run effect on business ownership for those unemployed at baseline, but this dissipates at longer horizons. Treatment effects on the full sample are also short-term and limited in scope: we do not find effects on business sales, earnings, or employees.