Please use this form to submit your study for inclusion into our database. It will be checked by a member of the Innovation Growth Lab team, who may be in contact to ask for more information. Your email address * Your name * Title * The name of the study Short summary Using an OLS regression estimator with clustered standard errors, the analysis finds that, out of the twelve outcome variables used to assess the effectiveness of the program of achieving its stated goals, they have reached their target for the outcome variables of business ownership, overall income level, community project ownership, savings behaviour and self-efficacy but not for the indicators of paidemployment prevalence, business or employment income, holding of a school leadership position, business planning, financial literacy or creativity. A brief description of the project's goals and its current state Abstract <p>The report contains a quantitative impact evaluation based on midline data from a Clustered Randomised Control Trial of a secondary school-level 21st Century Skills, leadership and entrepreneurship education program in Uganda. Using an OLS regression estimator with clustered standard errors, the analysis finds that, out of the twelve outcome variables used to assess the effectiveness of the program of achieving its stated goals, they have reached their target for the outcome variables of business ownership, overall income level, community project ownership, savings behaviour and self-efficacy but not for the indicators of paidemployment prevalence, business or employment income, holding of a school leadership position, business planning, financial literacy or creativity. However, when just females are focused upon, positive impacts on business income and creativity are also observed.</p> The full abstract of the study, if available Links https://static1.squarespace.com/static/520111afe4b0748af59ffc18/t/55ee2fa1e4b03487a6056836/1441673121616/Educate%21+Midline+RCT+data.pdf Links to any published papers and related discussions Authors * Affiliations Academic and other institutes that the authors of the study are members of Delivery partner Organisations involved in delivering the trial, if appropriate Year Year Year199419951996199719981999200020012002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026 Month MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec Day Day12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 Journal Journal publishing the study, if available Publication stage * Working Paper Published Ongoing Research Forthcoming Discussion Paper Research theme * Entrepreneurship Innovation Business Growth Country Country or countries where this study took place. Topics What sort of topics does the study cover? Sample attributes Hypotheses / research question Can entrepreneurial soft skills be taught? Sample Trial population and sample selection Secondary school students aged 16 to 18 that volunteer to participate and are selected based on their entrepreneurship and leadership propensity (interest, previous experience, cognitive abilities, etc.). Number of treatment groups Size of treatment groups Size of control group Unit of analysis Clustered? Yes No Cluster details Trial attributes Treatment description Lessons on entrepreneurship and leadership: weekly lessons administered by a specifically-trained mentor. The lessons are designed to be mostly practical and are aimed at developing both practical and soft skills. Mentoring sessions: mentors are recent university graduates that act as teachers, friends and role models to the students. Students Business Clubs: small projects aimed at building students’ experience in managing small businesses. Students Business Clubs activities are primarily led by the students, with the support of the mentor. Rounds of data collection Baseline data collection and method .A baseline survey was carried out before the program began in 2012 by IPA and included all students that had consented to inclusion. A first follow-up survey – the midline survey – was administered face-to-face by field enumerators hired by Educate! immediately after students graduated in 2013 and included only those who had completed the program. Data collection method and data collected Evaluation Outcome variables <p>Business ownership, overall income, community project ownership, savings behaviour, self-efficacy, business income and creativity.</p> Results <p>The programme does not foster the acquisition of practical entrepreneurial skills, business planning or financial literacy. Regarding soft-skills, the programme does not affect creativity and only has negligible impacts on self-efficacy. The programme doubles the probability of owning a business (right at the end of the programme while participants are still at school). This effect is even bigger for women, who experience a 130% increase in their probability of owning a business. Conversely, the programme does not affect the probability of gaining wage-employment. Overall monthly income also doubles for the participants. Again, the increase is particularly substantial for women participants who experience a 250% increase. Besides being more likely to have their own businesses, participants are also 120% more likely to have started and be running a community project, another type of entrepreneurial activity</p> Intervention costs Not available. Cost benefit ratio Reference Chioda, L., Gertler, P. , 2014. Impact Evaluation of Midline Data from the Educate! Randomised Control Trial. 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