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performance of young individuals in tertiary education. We focus on entrepreneurship education as an ideal subject for … administrative data for the universe of students in a Master's program in Management and Finance in Italy over 2011-2015. We measure … academic achievement through several indicators, both right after the end of the entrepreneurship course (short run) and at the …
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We study the short-run effects of a gamified online entrepreneurship training offered to high school students in Rwanda … business than participants in control schools. The training induced students to participate more actively in their school … students to sustain their business activities during the COVID-19 crisis. …
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found that increased entrepreneurship persisted one year later, in 2019. Students from treated schools were six percentage … profits were concentrated among marginal students induced into entrepreneurship by the program. Youth entrepreneurship …The persistently high employment share of the informal sector makes entrepreneurship a necessity for youth in many …
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We analyze the influence of two contradicting settings on the success in the academic spin-off creation process. Scientists, who are embedded in the academic setting, have to reach out and adapt to the logics of the commercial setting to successfully found their firm. However, along this...
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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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leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students' test scores. We observe the same student … also shows the class size effects are not mitigated for students with greater knowledge of the UK university system, this …Over the last decade, many countries have experienced dramatic increases in university enrolment, which, when not …
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cohorts of students in England – those who took GCSEs in 2001-02 and 2002-03 – from age 11 to age 20. The findings suggest … hold for both state and private school students. This suggests that poor attainment in secondary schools is more important … in explaining lower HE participation rates amongst students from disadvantaged backgrounds than barriers arising at the …
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-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 administrative data from a major undergraduate program where students are allocated … amongst students, even in an institution that imposes rigorous admission criteria and so has little observable heterogeneity …
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As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage …. This suggests that policies that increase returns from studying nursing can attract students to nursing. In addition, the …
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), within school-cohort and teacher-group, was not chosen by the students and it was as good as random. We find that male … students graduating from classes with at least 80% of male peers were more likely to choose "prevalently male" (PM) college …
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