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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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Risk attitudes and profits among small enterprises in Nigeria

Lammers, Judith; Willebrands, Daan; Hartog, Joop - 2010

This paper analyses the effect of risk attitudes of firm owners on profits among micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Lagos, Nigeria. Higher risk perceptions are shown to have a significant positive effect on profits, whereas risk propensity has a negative or no effect. Education, age, being...

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The value of an educated population for an individual's entrepreneurship success

Millán Morera de la Vall, José María; Congregado, Emilio - 2013 - Version: September 2013

Human capital obtained through education has been shown to be one of the strongest drivers of entrepreneurship … of time. An implication of our novel finding is that entrepreneurship and higher education policies should be considered …

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The more business owners the merrier? : the role of tertiary education

Praag, Mirjam van; Stel, Adriaan J. van - 2011

Policy in developed countries is often based on the assumption that higher business ownership rates induce economic value. Recent microeconomic empirical evidence casts doubts on the validity of this assumption or, at least, leads to a more nuanced view: Especially the top performing business...

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The impact of gender diversity on the performance of business teams : evidence from a field experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van - 2011

This paper reports about a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate students in business studies start up a venture as part of their curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams...

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Entrepreneurial couples

Dahl, Michael S.; Praag, Mirjam van; Thompson, Peter - 2014

We study possible motivations for co-entrepenurial couples to start up a joint firm, using a sample of 1,069 Danish couples that established a joint enterprise between 2001 and 2010. We compare their pre-entry characteristics, firm performance and postdissolution private and financial outcomes...

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On the origins of entrepreneurship : evidence from sibling correlations

Lindquist, Matthew J.; Sol, Joeri; Praag, Mirjam van; … - 2016

Promoting entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important part of the policy agenda in many countries. The … success of such policies, however, rests in part on the assumption that entrepreneurship outcomes are not fully determined at … background and neighborhood effects as determinants of entrepreneurship, by estimating sibling correlations in entrepreneurship …

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The Schumpeterian entrepreneur : a review of the empirical evidence on the antecedents, behavior, and consequences of innovative entrepreneurship

Block, Jörn; Fisch, Christian; Praag, Mirjam van - 2016

Innovative entrepreneurship is considered an important pillar for economic development and has sparked a lively … that takes stock of the academic knowledge about innovative entrepreneurship and summarizes the evidence from 102 empirical … innovative entrepreneurship. Based on this state-of-the-art literature review, directions for future research are discussed. …

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The entrepreneur's mode of entry : business takeover or new venture start?

Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2006

We analyse the decision to become an entrepreneur by either taking over an established business or starting a new venture from scratch. A model is developed which predicts how several individual- and firm-specific characteristics influence entrepreneurs' entry mode. The new venture creation mode...

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Corporate tax policy, entrepreneurship and incorporation in the EU

Mooij, Ruud A. de; Nicodème, Gaëtan - 2007

panel of European data on firm births andlegal form of business to analyze income shifting via increased entrepreneurship …

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