1. Fuelling financial literacy: estimating the impact of youth entrepreneurship training in Tanzania.
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Krause, Brooke L., McCarthy, Aine Seitz, and Chapman, David
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FINANCIAL literacy ,LIFE skills ,PERSONAL finance ,ENTREPRENEURSHIP ,BUSINESS - Abstract
Training programmes are popular development interventions that aim to address problems of youth unemployment. This paper estimates the impact of a youth entrepreneurship programme in Tanzania on financial literacy and employment knowledge. Using primary data within a successive cohort design in a community-led programme, the authors employed propensity score matching and fixed-effect estimation methods to assess changes in knowledge, skills and attitudes of marginalised youth. They found strong positive effects of the programme on key intermediate employment outcomes: savings ability, employment confidence and personal finance. The positive impact of this programme supports youth entrepreneurship training programme and non-experimental evaluation methods. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2016
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