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Education and entrepreneurial choice : an instrumental variables analysis

Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: November 2010

Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of its influence, however, is difficult since it is considered to be an endogenous variable. This study accounts for this endogeneity by using an instrumental variables approachand a data set of...

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Are education and entrepreneurial income endogenous and do family background variables make sense as instruments? : a Bayesian analysis

Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: February 2010

Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental...

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Family background variables as instruments for education in income regressions : a Bayesian analysis

Hoogerheide, Lennart; Block, Jörn; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: July 2010

The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In this paper, we use data of the 2004 German Socio-Economic Panel and Bayesian analysis in order to analyze to what degree violations of the strong validity assumption affect the...

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How green are exporters?

Girma, Sourafel; Hanley, Aoife - 2013

that exporters are more likely to report their innovation as having a ‘high/very high’ environmental effect. …

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Exporting and the environment : a new look with micro-data

Girma, Sourafel (contributor); Hanley, Aoife (contributor); … - 2008

innovation as having a 'high' or 'very high' environmental effect. Our findings also show that exporters are 17.5 percent more … likely, all things equal, to report that their firm's innovation cuts the cost of energy/ materials. Our results agree with … wider output base -- Exporting ; environment ; innovation ; heterogeneity …

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Foreign direct investment, access to finance, and innovation activity in Chinese enterprises

Girma, Sourafel (contributor); Gong, Yundan (contributor); … - 2008

This paper investigates the link between inward FDI and innovation activity in China, using a very comprehensive and … through which FDI affects the innovation of domestic private and collectively owned enterprises. …

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