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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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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 … substitution between entrepreneurship and employment among students in treated schools. …
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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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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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. 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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access in promoting entrepreneurship among informal sector firms in India. Our results are robust to alternative … what directions? We take advantage of nationwide data collected in 2010/11 and 2015/16 by India's National Sample Survey …
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We study the role of formal institutions of contract enforcement in facilitating investments in small and medium firms(MSME). In a framework where established entrepreneurs can enforce contracts informally using their network ties and hierarchical advantage, we argue that an efficient formal...
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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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We develop a framework for quantifying barriers to labor force participation (LFP) and entrepreneurship faced by women … in India. We find substantial barriers to LFP, and higher costs of expanding businesses through the hiring of workers for …, policies promoting female entrepreneurship can significantly increase female LFP even without explicitly targeting female LFP …
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entrepreneurship requires many other actors - besides the entrepreneur - whose skills and abilities are necessary to realize an … framework that levels the playing field for potential entrepreneurs and encourages productive entrepreneurship. To promote this … foster innovation and, in the end, the welfare-enhancing productive entrepreneurship policymakers and scholars strive for. …
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