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The Impact of Gender Diversity on the Performance of Business Teams: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Oosterbeek, Hessel; van Praag, Mirjam - 2011

This paper reports about a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate students in business studies start up a venture as part of their curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams...

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Why do Entrepreneurial Parents have Entrepreneurial Children?

Lindquist, Matthew; Sol, Joeri; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012

Parental entrepreneurship is a strong, probably the strongest, determinant of own entrepreneurship. We explore the … origins of this intergenerational association in entrepreneurship. In particular, we identify the separate effects of pre- and … biological parents. Moreover, we use comparable data on entrepreneurship for a large, representative sample of the Swedish …

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Ability Dispersion and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012

This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. Exogenous variation in - otherwise random - team composition is...

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The Effect of Early Entrepreneurship Education: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Huber, Laura Rosendahl; Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012

The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To this end, we conduct a … randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade …

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Demography and innovative entrepreneurship

Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2007

Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...

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Demography and innovative entrepreneurship

Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2007

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Occupational choice and social contacts across regions

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2008

This paper tests the importance of social contacts on entrepreneurship. To measure differences in the …

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The shadows of the past: how implicit institutions influence entrepreneurship

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; … - 2009

This paper investigates the impact of implicit institutions on the decision to become an entrepreneur. Implicit institutions are here defined as mindsets that have developed as the result of norms and traditions and we expect they will have an influence on risk attitudes and opportunity...

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School competition and students' entrepreneurial intentions: International evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling

Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

School choice research mostly focuses on academic outcomes. Policymakers increasingly view entrepreneurial traits as a non-cognitive outcome important for economic growth. We use international PISA-2006 student-level data to estimate the effect of private-school competition on students'...

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Identity and entrepreneurship

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lüdemann, Elke - 2009

We incorporate the concept of social identity into a stylized model of occupational choice and analyze whether an individual's identity affects his or her decision to become an entrepreneur. We argue that an entrepreneurial identity results from an individual's socialization. This could be...

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