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delivery of a major entrepreneurship curriculum reform in Rwanda. The reform introduced interactive pedagogy and a focus on … business skills in the country's required upper secondary entrepreneurship course. In addition to the government's standard … instruction, consistent with the reform's features. These effects on pedagogy did not translate into improvements in student …
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The persistently high employment share of the informal sector makes entrepreneurship a necessity for youth in many … developing countries. We exploit exogenous variation in the implementation of Rwanda's entrepreneurship education reform in … controlled trial, we evaluated a three-year intensive training for entrepreneurship teachers, finding pedagogical changes as …
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This study examines the labor-market returns of skill signals. We identify the labor-market effect of grade point averages (GPA) by leveraging a nationwide change in the scaling of grades in Danish universities. Results show that a reform-induced increase in GPA that is unrelated to ability...
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We study the short-run effects of a gamified online entrepreneurship training offered to high school students in Rwanda …
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performance of young individuals in tertiary education. We focus on entrepreneurship education as an ideal subject for … academic achievement through several indicators, both right after the end of the entrepreneurship course (short run) and at the …
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. In order for the continent to benefit from the 4IR more needs to be done to improve entrepreneurship and education. A … number of policy recommendations for 4IRcompatible entrepreneurship and education policies are made. …
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In this paper we present a counterfactual evaluation of the effect of ICT resources at school on student achievements conducted in Italy. In 2009 156 classes at 6th grade were endowed with additional resources earmarked for purchasing ICT equipments only. By selecting an equivalent number of...
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Understanding how variation in weather and climate conditions impact productivity, performance and learning is of …
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, with the purpose of enabling students to combine theoretical learning at school with work-based learning. A distinctive …
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Job creation is one of the most important aspects of entrepreneurship, but we know relatively little about the hiring … Survey (KFS), and the Growing America through Entrepreneurship (GATE) experiment are used to provide some of the first … largest random experiment providing entrepreneurship training in the United States ever conducted, we do not find evidence …
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