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We assess, via an experiment across 207 secondary schools, how a comprehensive teacher training program affects the … 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 …
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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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-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and controlling student-teacher fixed effects, we …
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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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We study the short-run effects of a gamified online entrepreneurship training offered to high school students in Rwanda …
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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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We examine the empirical determinants of student achievement in higher education, focusing our attention on its small-group teaching component (classes or seminars) and on the role of attendance, number of students per class, peers, and tutors. The empirical analysis is based on longitudinal...
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We use several data sets to consider the effect of teaching practices on student beliefs, as well as on organization of firms and institutions. In cross-country data, we show that teaching practices (such as copying from the board versus working on projects together) are strongly related to...
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We examine the teacher labour market in China using the 2005 mini-Census, in the context of the transformation of the … non-teaching occupations suggest that teacher recruitment has become more market-oriented and flexible, in attracting low …
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