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We estimate the impact of schooling and capital constraints at the time of startup on the performance of Dutch entrepreneurial ventures, taking into account the potential endogeneity and interdependence of these variables. Instrumental variable estimates indicate that a 1 percentage point...
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measure ‘income’). This is the case even when estimating individual fixed effects of the differential returns to education for …/or whether we use instrumental variables to cope with the endogenous nature of education in income equations. Finally, we find …
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it not only includes data on occupational status for the adoptees and their adoptive parents, but also for their … biological parents. Moreover, we use comparable data on entrepreneurship for a large, representative sample of the Swedish … the probability of children's entrepreneurship by about 60%. We further show that for adoptees, both biological and …
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of schooling in developing economies raises enterprise income by an average of 5.5 percent, which is close to the average …
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We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...
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A large representative sample of twins is used to estimate the causal effect of schooling on earnings in Norway, for both men and women. The within-twin-pair estimates reveal that standard cross section (OLS) estimates of the effect on male hourly earnings are biased upwards. For women, no such...
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generates a higher income, but only for entrepreneurs: This finding supports Lazear's Jack-of-all-Trades theory. …
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