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Growing America Through Entrepreneurship

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  • Jeanne Bellotti
  • Sheena McConnell
  • Jacob Benus

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While many Americans dream about starting their own businesses, lack of business expertise and access to credit often prevent them from moving forward.

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  • Jeanne Bellotti & Sheena McConnell & Jacob Benus, "undated". "Growing America Through Entrepreneurship," Mathematica Policy Research Reports d3bbbcef77fe49cb988c23d84, Mathematica Policy Research.
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    1. Timothy Bates & Lisa Servon, 1998. "Microenterprise As An Exit Route From Poverty:* Recommendations For Programs And Policy Makers," Working Papers 98-17, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
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    3. Caroline Massad Francis & Irma Perez-Johnson & Samia Amin & Mary Anne Anderson, "undated". "The Characteristics and Motivations of Participants in the Self-Employment Training Demonstration," Mathematica Policy Research Reports 4bc5832321894c5e89ffaedca, Mathematica Policy Research.
    4. Michaelides, Marios & Benus, Jacob, 2012. "Are self-employment training programs effective? Evidence from Project GATE," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 19(5), pages 695-705.
    5. Ammar Farooq & Adriana Kugler, 2015. "What factors contributed to changes in employment during and after the Great Recession?," IZA Journal of Labor Policy, Springer;Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA), vol. 4(1), pages 1-28, December.
    6. Mary Anne Anderson & Samia Amin & Irma Perez-Johnson & Caroline Massad Francis, "undated". "What Does $1,000 in Seed Capital Buy? Emerging Lessons from the SET Program’s Offer of Microgrants for Business Start-Ups," Mathematica Policy Research Reports 1af8dc28b1524531a6421c18d, Mathematica Policy Research.
    7. Annalisa Mastri & Emily Evans & Stacy Pancratz & Carrie Wolfson, "undated". "Employment Research in Brief: An Annotated Bibliography of ETA-Sponsored Studies," Mathematica Policy Research Reports 2f5be979ffa14d3996aa77f33, Mathematica Policy Research.
    8. Marios Michaelides, 2017. "Nascent Entrepreneurship and Race: Evidence from the GATE Experiment," University of Cyprus Working Papers in Economics 02-2017, University of Cyprus Department of Economics.
    9. Jacob Benus & Sheena McConnell & Jeanne Bellotti & Theodore Shen & Kenneth Fortson & Daver Kahvecioglu, "undated". "Growing America Through Entrepreneurship: Findings from the Evaluation of Project GATE," Mathematica Policy Research Reports afeceaeccbf54835ae4f79e73, Mathematica Policy Research.
    10. Christopher J. O'Leary, 2017. "Evaluating Public Employment Programs with Field Experiments: A Survey of American Evidence," Upjohn Working Papers 17-279, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
    11. Marios Michaelides & Scott Davis, 2016. "From unemployment to self-employment: the role of entrepreneurship training," University of Cyprus Working Papers in Economics 09-2016, University of Cyprus Department of Economics.

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