abstract: 'We study two interventions for poor and underemployed Ethiopian youth: a \$300 grant to spur self-employment, and a job offer to an industrial firm. Each one is designed to help overcome two common barriers to employment: financial market imperfections and matching frictions. We find significant impacts on occupational choice, income, and health in the first year. After five years, however, we see no evidence of long run effects of either intervention. The grant led short-run increases in self-employment, productivity and earnings, but these appear to dissipate over time as recipients exit their businesses. Worrisomely, offers of factory work had no effect on employment or earnings, but led to serious adverse effects on health after one year. Evidence of these effects is gone after five years as well, however. These results point to convergence in most outcomes, and suggest that one-time and one-dimensional interventions may struggle to overcome barriers to wage- or self-employment.' affiliation: 'Blattman, C (Corresponding Author), Univ Chicago, Harris Publ Policy, 1307 E 60th SL,Room 2009, Chicago, IL 60637 USA. Blattman, C (Corresponding Author), NBER, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA. Blattman, Christopher, Univ Chicago, Harris Publ Policy, 1307 E 60th SL,Room 2009, Chicago, IL 60637 USA. Blattman, Christopher, NBER, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA. Dercon, Stefan, Univ Oxford, Ctr Study African Econ, Dept Econ, Woodstock Rd, Oxford OX2 6GG, England. Dercon, Stefan, Univ Oxford, Blavatnik Sch Govt, Radcliffe Observ Quarter, Woodstock Rd, Oxford OX2 6GG, England. Franklin, Simon, Queen Mary Univ London, Sch Econ, Mile End Rd, London E1 4NS, England.' article-number: '102807' author: Blattman, Christopher and Dercon, Stefan and Franklin, Simon author-email: 'blattman@uchicago.edu stefan.dercon@qeh.ox.ac.uk s.franklin@qmul.ac.uk' author_list: - family: Blattman given: Christopher - family: Dercon given: Stefan - family: Franklin given: Simon da: '2023-09-28' doi: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2021.102807 earlyaccessdate: FEB 2022 eissn: 1872-6089 files: [] issn: 0304-3878 journal: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS keywords: 'Entrepreneurship; Cash transfers; Wage labor; Factories; Employment; Poverty; Occupational choice; Health; Field experiment' keywords-plus: EMPLOYMENT; TRANSFERS; RETURNS; POVERTY; WAGES; RISK language: English month: MAY number-of-cited-references: '50' papis_id: 52ecfedf93cdf1b5f1ae8b29618c403d ref: Blattman2022impactsindustrial times-cited: '2' title: 'Impacts of industrial and entrepreneurial jobs on youth: 5-year experimental evidence on factory job offers and cash grants in Ethiopia' type: Article unique-id: WOS:000772292600004 usage-count-last-180-days: '1' usage-count-since-2013: '6' volume: '156' web-of-science-categories: Economics year: '2022'