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opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative … indicate that the returns to a year of education for opportunity entrepreneurs are 3.5 percentage points higher than the paid … employees' rate of 8.1%, but 6.5 percentage points lower for necessity entrepreneurs. …
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This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for …
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This paper experimentally investigates the nature of image concerns in gift giving. For this, we test variants of dictator and impunity games where the influences of social preferences on behavior are kept constant across all games. Givers maximize material payoffs by pretending to be fair when...
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data with representative behavioral data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to … elicit people's trust correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 55, highly …
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We experimentally test the efficacy of indenture as a self-enforced contract device. In an indenture game, the principal signals the intention of payment-on-delivery, by tearing a banknote and giving the agent half of it as "prepayment"; the agent receives the completing half after delivering...
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one of the most prominent determinants of entrepreneurship - education - and approximately three times larger than …
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research and draw some conclusions for entrepreneurship policy. …
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discuss the implications for entrepreneurship policy that can be derived from our findings. …
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The amendment to the German Trade and Crafts Code in 2004 offers a natural experiment to asses the causal effects of …
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reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variables of social cognition influence everyday decision making … behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are permanently facing exchange processes in the interplay with investors, sellers, and … that these variables influence the entrepreneurial decision processes. More specifically, we analyze whether i) the …
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