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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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developing countries. We exploit exogenous variation in the implementation of Rwanda's entrepreneurship education reform in …The persistently high employment share of the informal sector makes entrepreneurship a necessity for youth in many … 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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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 gender pay gap as well as entrepreneurship research on women's entrepreneurship to the novel context of social …
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Fueled by new evidence, there has been renewed interest about the effects of birth order on human capital accumulation. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more stringent disciplinary environments in response to their...
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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 … hire their first employee by the first, second and seventh years after startup. The education level of the owner, however …
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, curriculum. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we compare changes in the labor market outcomes of graduate cohorts from … the affected faculty, before-and-after the curriculum revision, to changes in the labor market outcomes of graduate … cohorts from the other faculties. We do not find evidence that curriculum breadth matters for these labor market outcomes …
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Revenue drift, where insufficient attention is given to economic, relative to social, goals, threatens social enterprise performance and survival. We argue that financial incentives can address this problem by redirecting employee attention to commercial tasks and attracting workers less...
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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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