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 …

Nascent entrepreneurs are people who are (alone or with others) actively engaged in creating a new venture and who … development of nations and regions, and that nascent entrepreneurs are by definition important for the foundation of new firms …, information about nascent entrepreneurs is important for understanding crucial aspects of the economy. The relevance of detailed …

This paper contributes to empirical research in entrepreneurship by focusing on the link between two stylized facts … Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM). We use a version of the probit model that takes care of the regional stratification of the data, and …

patterns of variables influencing nascent and infant entrepreneurship are quite similar and broadly in line with our … theoretical priors – both types of entrepreneurship are fostered by the width of experience and a role model in the family, and … entrepreneurs become infant entrepreneurs, and that observed individual characteristics – with the important exception of former …

In western industrialized countries men are on average more than twice as active in entrepreneurship as women. Based on … failure to be a reason not to start one's own business is important for the explanation of the gender gap in entrepreneurship. …

Nascent entrepreneurs are people who are engaged in creating new ventures. This chapter reviews the international …

This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students’ entrepreneurship …

Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is … mixed. To better understand the unique behavioral characteristics of entrepreneurs and the causes of these mixed results, we … perform a large 'lab-in-the-field' experiment comparing entrepreneurs to managers – a suitable comparison group – and …

entrepreneurship and credit constraints under labour market discrimination. We divide self employed into prefer to be self-employed and … prefer to have a salaried job but cannot find one; and divide salaried workers into want-to-be entrepreneurs and happy …-to-be salaried workers. Over 40 percent of migrant workers are either currently or want-to-be entrepreneurs. Both groups are very …

Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that … workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average … income with all but undergraduate level of education. However, random effects and matching models suggest that entrepreneurs …