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'