Abstract
Training programmes are popular development interventions that aim to address problems of youth unemployment. This paper estimates the impact of a youth entrepreneurship programme in Tanzania on financial literacy and employment knowledge. Using primary data within a successive cohort design in a community-led programme, the authors employed propensity score matching and fixed-effect estimation methods to assess changes in knowledge, skills and attitudes of marginalised youth. They found strong positive effects of the programme on key intermediate employment outcomes: savings ability, employment confidence and personal finance. The positive impact of this programme supports youth entrepreneurship training programme and non-experimental evaluation methods.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 234-256 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Journal | Journal of Development Effectiveness |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 2 2016 |
Keywords
- entrepreneurship training
- financial literacy
- impact evaluation
- propensity score matching
- youth unemployment
