Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/252188 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15064
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We study the short-run effects of a gamified online entrepreneurship training offered to high school students in Rwanda during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a randomized controlled trial, we estimate sizeable effects of the 6-week training on entrepreneurial activity. One month after the training, participants in schools offered the training were much more likely to own a business than participants in control schools. The training induced students to participate more actively in their school's business club, to undertake more business-oriented actions, to improve their business practices, and to interact more with other youth and family members about their business ideas. We hypothesize that the training might have motivated treated students to sustain their business activities during the COVID-19 crisis.
Subjects: 
randomized control trials
online education
entrepreneurship education
COVID-19
Rwanda
JEL: 
I21
I25
I26
J24
L26
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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