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 Creajeunes offers support to young people from poorer neighbourhoods to get them involved in entrepreneurship. Results forthcoming. A brief description of the project's goals and its current state Abstract <p>The Paris School of Economics proposed a project to the Haut-Commissariat aux Solidarités Actives (French Minister for Active Solidarity against Poverty) to evaluate the impact of one of Adie’s programs, CréaJeunes. The “Association pour le droit à l’initiative économique” (Adie), is an NGO that aids people in creating their own business. The program is designed to encourage and support young people employment and entrepreneurship, particularly in poorer neighborhoods. The start of this new program is a unique opportunity to put in place a system that will allow us to rigorously measure its impact. Indeed, the impact of existing programs designed to augment business creation in France have never been evaluated in a rigorous manner and thus evidence is lacking on whether these programs improve youth employment and reduce inequality and exclusion. The study analyzes the impact of the program by taking advantage of a lottery at the time of application to create two identical groups which allows a rigorous evaluation of the impact of the program.</p> The full abstract of the study, if available Links https://www.povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/small-business-training-and-loans-aspiring-entrepreneurs-disadvantaged-neighborhoods 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 Sample Trial population and sample selection The intervention targeted young people (18-30 years old) in poor neighbourhoods in six cities in France: Lille, Saint-Denis, Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse and Bordeaux. Eligible individuals were randomly selected into treatment and control groups by computer. Number of treatment groups Size of treatment groups 1,100 Size of control group Unit of analysis Clustered? Yes No Cluster details Trial attributes Treatment description Individuals in the treatment group underwent the CreaJeunes programme. During the first four months they received individual and group coaching, individual follow-up, immersion experience in a firm and job training. There was also potential to receive financial support to finish business projects and/or receive microcredit loans or grants. Additional support was offered for up to 18 months after business creation. Rounds of data collection Baseline data collection and method Data collection method and data collected Evaluation Outcome variables <p>Employment, business creation, entrepreneurship, income, consumption, spirit and motivation.</p> Results <p>Not yet available.</p> Intervention costs Not available. Cost benefit ratio Reference Duflo, E., Crépon, B., Huillery, E., & Pariente, W., 2015. 'CréaJeunes - Small Business Training'. AEA RCT Registry. Citation for use in academic references
