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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 … US. Theeffect of education on the decision to become self-employed is found to be strongly positive,much higher than the … estimated effect in case no instrumental variables are used. That is, thehigher the respondent's level of education, the greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379198
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The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship competencies and intentions
Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van; IJsselstein, Auke - 2007 - This version: November 2007
This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students’ entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374432
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Entrepreneurship, wage employment and control in an occupational choice framework
Douhan, Robin; Praag, Mirjam van - 2009
We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378332
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Can competitiveness predict education and labor market outcomes? : evidence from incentivized choice and survey measures
Buser, Thomas; Niederle, Muriel; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2020
We assess the predictive power of two measures of competitiveness for education and labor market outcomes using a large … are strong and consistent predictors of income, occupation, completed level of education and field of study. The … in education and labor market outcomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012261000
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School choice and competition
Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Geest, Stephanie van der; Gradus, Raymond - 2008
the leading principle of the Dutch education system since the beginning of the 20th century. Based on panel data for the … Netherlands we show that there is a relation between competition and student achievement in upper secondary education, but that it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377312
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Genetic fortune : winning or losing education, income, and health
Kweon, Hyeokmoon; Burik, Casper A.P.; Karlsson Linnér, … - 2020 - Revision: November 2020
We study the effects of genetic endowments on inequalities in education, income, and health. Specifically, we conduct … wages for each additional year of education obtained in a US sample. Thus, the implications of genetic endowments are … malleable, for example, via policies targeting education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012264989
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A theory of socioeconomic disparities in health over the life cycle
Galama, Titus J.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2010
Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381036
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The effect of Sibling's gender on earnings, education and family formation
Peter, Noemi; Lundborg, Petter; Webbink, Herman Dinand - 2015 - This version: May 2015
We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … with sisters obtain lower education and give birth earlier than women with brothers. Our analysis shows that the family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010532574
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Employment assimilation of immigrants in the Netherlands
Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - 2008
irrelevance of education for socio-economic position of immigrants once the country of origin has been controlled for. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376490
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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 …) income and of education. Using instrumental variables can provide a way out. However, three questions remain: whether … that the relationship between education and entrepreneurial income is indeed endogenous and that the impact of endogeneity …
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