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 A brief description of the project's goals and its current state Abstract <p>Can internship programmes provide young entrepreneurs with valuable experiential learning on successful management practices? This pilot study confirms the viability of such a programme in promoting 'learning by doing', and builds the foundation for a full-scale internship experiment beginning in 2015.</p> <p>For a non-technical summary, please click <a href="https://voxdev.org/topic/firms-trade/learning-management-through-matching-experimental-evidence-ethiopia">here.</a></p> The full abstract of the study, if available Links https://www.nber.org/papers/w26035 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 How do entrepreneurial skills develop, and how important are personal connections for finding jobs in these countries? Sample Trial population and sample selection Number of treatment groups Size of treatment groups Size of control group Unit of analysis Clustered? Yes No Cluster details Trial attributes Treatment description Four-week ‘management internship’, to work alongside middle and senior managers of established Ethiopian firms Rounds of data collection Baseline data collection and method Data collection method and data collected Evaluation Outcome variables <p>Management skills, employment outcomes</p> Results <p>Pending</p> Intervention costs Cost benefit ratio Reference Abebe, G., Fafchamps, M., Koelle, M., Quinn, S. (forthcoming). 'An Internship Programme for Young Ethiopian Entrepreneurs'. Ongoing research. Citation for use in academic references
