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Does higher education make you more entrepreneurial? : causal evidence from China
Huang, Bin; Tani, Massimiliano; Zhu, Yu - 2021
Using the 2017 China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), we estimate the effect of higher education on entrepreneurship … education are less likely to enter entrepreneurship in general, obtaining any qualification beyond the baseline of compulsory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517504
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Energy poverty and entrepreneurship
Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Wang, Haining - 2021
an individual’s probability of becoming an entrepreneur. Consistent with the theory of underdog entrepreneurship that … entrepreneurship, we find that spending a higher share of household income on energy consumption or being energy poor increases the … entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012596057
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Air pollution and entrepreneurship
Guo, Liwen; Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Cook, Sarah - 2023
We investigate the effect of exposure to air pollution on an individual's likelihood towards entrepreneurship using … panel data in China. To address omitted variable bias and endogeneity arising from self-selection into entrepreneurship and … propensity for entrepreneurship and a 34 percentage points decrease in the likelihood of entrepreneurial diversification. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014315828
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Energy Poverty and Entrepreneurship
Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Wang, Haining - 2021
an individual’s probability of becoming an entrepreneur. Consistent with the theory of underdog entrepreneurship that … entrepreneurship, we find that spending a higher share of household income on energy consumption or being energy poor increases the … entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013217544
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Enterprising women in Southern Africa : when does land ownership matter?
Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry; Tregenna, Fiona - 2020
Limited access to finance is one of the major barriers for women entrepreneurs in Africa. This paper presents a model of start-ups in which firms' sales and profits depend on their productivity and access to credit. However, due to the lack of collateral assets such as land, female entrepreneurs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162904
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Does Higher Education Make You More Entrepreneurial? Causal Evidence from China
Huang, Bin; Tani, Massimiliano; Zhu, Yu - 2021
Using the 2017 China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), we estimate the effect of higher education on entrepreneurship … education are less likely to enter entrepreneurship in general, obtaining any qualification beyond the baseline of compulsory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013228954
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New Evidence on Long-Term Effects of Start-Up Subsidies : Matching Estimates and Their Robustness
Caliendo, Marco - 2019
The German start-up subsidy (SUS) program for the unemployed has recently undergone a major make-over, altering its institutional setup, adding an additional layer of selection and leading to ambiguous predictions of the program's effectiveness. Using propensity score matching (PSM) as our main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870229
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Do Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed Affect Participants' Well-Being? A Rigorous Look at (Un-)Intended Consequences of Labor Market Policies
Caliendo, Marco - 2019
We estimate the long-term effects of start-up subsidies (SUS) for the unemployed on subjective outcome indicators of well-being, as measured by the participants' satisfaction in different domains. This extends previous analyses of the current German SUS program ("Gründungszuschuss") that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859296
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Do start-up subsidies for the unemployed affect participants' well-being? : a rigorous look at (un-)intended consequences of labor market policies
Caliendo, Marco; Tübbicke, Stefan - 2019
We estimate the long-term effects of start-up subsidies (SUS) for the unemployed on subjective outcome indicators of well-being, as measured by the participants' satisfaction in different domains. This extends previous analyses of the current German SUS program ("Gründungszuschuss") that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012136859
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The post-reform effectiveness of the new German start-up subsidy for the unemployed
Bellmann, Lutz; Caliendo, Marco; Tübbicke, Stefan - 2017
Start-up subsidies for the unemployed have long been an important active labor market policy strategy in Germany. The current subsidy program underwent a major reform in 2011 that changed its key parameters: support was lowered, eligibility criteria were tightened and entitlement was abandoned...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735906