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Ketel, Nadine; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Sóvágó, Sándor; … - 2023

We combine data from the Amsterdam secondary-school match with register data and survey data to estimate the effects of not being assigned to one's first-ranked school on academic outcomes and on a wide range of other outcomes. For identification we use that secondaryschool assignment in...

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Shacklean Uncertainty and Cultural Embeddedness as Innovation Constraints in the UK

Tubadji, Annie; Nijkamp, Peter; Santarelli, Enrico - 2017

We focus on both individual and local uncertainty to explain the innovation potential of entrepreneurs in the NUTS1 UK … choices are truncated is taken as a determinant of an entrepreneur’s innovation decision. GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor … determinant of individual entrepreneurial choice. The regional effect appears to amount to about 4% of the innovation differences …

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The Effect of Extra Funding for Disadvantaged Pupils on Achievement

Webbink, Dinand; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Lindahl, Mikael; … - 2004

This paper evaluates the effects of two subsidies targeted at disadvantaged pupils in the Netherlands. The first scheme gives primary schools with at least 70 percent minority pupils extra funding for personnel. The second scheme gives primary schools with at least 70 percent pupils from...

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A New Approach to Estimate the Wage Returns to Work-Related Training

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2002

This paper proposes a new approach to identify the wage effects of training. The idea is to narrow down the comparison group by only taking into consideration the workers who wanted to participate in training but did not do so because of some random event. The point estimate of the return to...

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The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship competencies and intentions: an evaluation of the junior achievement student mini-company program

Oosterbeek, Hessel; van Praag, C. Mirjam; IJsselstein, Auke - 2007

Both the European Community, its member countries and the United States have stimulated schools to implement entrepreneurship programs into schooling curricula on a large scale, based on the idea that entrepreneurial competencies and mindsets must be developed at school. The leading and...

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The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions

Oosterbeek, Hessel; van Praag, Mirjam; IJsselstein, Auke - 2008

This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students’ entrepreneurship competencies and intentions using an instrumental variables approach in a difference-in-differences framework. We exploit that the program was offered to students at one...

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Creative destruction and productive preemption

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - 2013

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …

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Gains and Pains from Contract Research: A Transaction and Firm-level Perspective

Kaiser, Ulrich; Grimpe, Christoph - 2008

outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper … findings suggest that technological uncertainty, contractual experience and openness to external knowledge sources motivate the …

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Entrepreneurial innovations and taxation

Haufler, Andreas; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2011

-return characteristics of the selected innovation project and the mode of commercialization chosen by entrepreneurs (market entry versus sale …

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Labor mobility, social network effects, and innovative activity

Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Rønde, Thomas - 2011

other studies not only exists but even outweighs the disruption and loss of knowledge occurring to the previous employer …

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