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The Effect of Early Entrepreneurship Education: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Rosendahl Huber, Laura; Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279352
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Territorial Differences in Italian Students’ Mathematical Competencies: Evidence from PISA 2003
Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele; Filippin, Antonio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In this paper we investigate the existence and the size of territorial differences in Italian students’ mathematical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700899
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The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions: An Evaluation of the Junior Achievement Student Mini-Company Program
Oosterbeek, Hessel; van Praag, Mirjam; IJsselstein, Auke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students’ entrepreneurship … program was offered to students at one location of a school but not at another location of the same school. Location choice … show that the program does not have the intended effects: the effect on students’ self-assessed entrepreneurial skills is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822502
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Viral Altruism? Generosity and Social Contagion in Online Networks
Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Mele, Angelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
How do the social media affect the success of charitable promotional campaigns? We use individual-level longitudinal data and experimental data from a social-media application that facilitates donations while broadcasting donors' activities to their contacts. We find that broadcasting is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010773921
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Business Training and Female Enterprise Start-Up, Growth, and Dynamics: Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka
de Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David; Woodruff, Christopher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. In contrast to existing business training evaluations which are restricted to microfinance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010735639
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Taking a Second Chance: Entrepreneurial Restarters in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might be termed 'stigmatisation of failure': taking a second chance to build one's own firm after failing as a self-employed is said to be much more difficult here than in other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822063
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Who Becomes an Entrepreneur? Labor Market Prospects and Occupational Choice
Poschke, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
start, the paper briefly documents evidence from the empirical literature that the relationship between entrepreneurship and … persist in the market, and that returns to entrepreneurship have a much larger cross-sectional variance than returns to wage … entrepreneurship where agents are heterogeneous in their ability as workers, and starting entrepreneurs face uncertainty about their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822184
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Entrepreneurial Entry: Which Institutions Matter?
Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
In this paper we explore the relationship between the individual decision to become an entrepreneur and the institutional context. We pinpoint the critical roles of property rights and the size of the state sector for entrepreneurial activity and test the relationships empirically by combining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822242
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The Persistence of Self-Employment Across Borders: New Evidence on Legal Immigrants to the United States
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Akee, Randall K. Q.; Jaeger, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Using recently-available data from the New Immigrant Survey, we find that previous selfemployment experience in an immigrant’s country of origin is an important determinant of their self-employment status in the U.S., increasing the probability of being self-employed by about 7 percent. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822432
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Entrepreneurship, Self-Employment and Business Data: An Introduction to Several Large, Nationally-Representative Datasets
Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Only a few large, nationally-representative datasets include information on both the owner and the business. We briefly describe several of the most respected and up-to-date sources of data on entrepreneurs, the self-employed, and small businesses. More information including estimates of recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822482