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Entrepreneurial Couples
Dahl, Michael S.; Praag, Mirjam C. van; Thompson, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
inequality in the household. We find no evidence of non-pecuniary benefits or costs of co-entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959552
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Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander M.; Praag, Mirjam C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the causal impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a randomized field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959569
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Why Do Entrepreneurial Parents Have Entrepreneurial Children?
Lindquist, Matthew J.; Sol, Joeri; Praag, Mirjam C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959718
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Jacks-of-All-Trades? The Effect of Balanced Skills on Team Performance
Rosendahl Huber, Laura; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
specialists within one team. Our field experiment studies teams of children participating in an entrepreneurship education program …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959802
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Ability Dispersion and Team Performance: A Field Experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander M.; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959852
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Creativity and the Family Tree: Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent
Link, Albert N.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In this paper we show that the patenting behavior of creative entrepreneurs is correlated with the patenting behavior of their fathers, which we refer to as a source of the entrepreneurs' human capital endowments. Our argument for this relationship follows from established theories of...
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