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also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …
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of youth start-ups. Our paper contributes to closing a gap in the entrepreneurship and development literature with a … unemployment. We test the role of skills and training for productive youth entrepreneurship on data from a recent survey of … productive start-ups than subsidies. The case for interventions targeted at youth rises in societies with high costs of youth …
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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 … found that increased entrepreneurship persisted one year later, in 2019. Students from treated schools were six percentage …
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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 … other youth and family members about their business ideas. We hypothesize that the training might have motivated treated …
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elementary and high school students. Using students who had an alternative source of funding as a control group, and … administrative records before and after the reform, we present evidence that students most likely to attend college in a future are … affected in different ways. First, we show that parents of students who ex ante were more likely to be credit restricted became …
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commitments are influenced by neighbourhood characteristics. We investigate this process for migrant youth, a group that lags … behind in educational attainment compared to native youth, and might therefore be particularly vulnerable to neighbourhood … proportions of immigrants increases the educational commitments of migrant youth compared to living in neighbourhoods with lower …
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We investigate the impact of student work experience on later hiring chances. To completely rule out potential endogeneity, we present a field experiment in which various forms of student work experience are randomly disclosed by more than 1000 fictitious graduates applying for jobs in Belgium....
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One of the most claimed links in the health and education literature is that education prevents from the risk of overweight, and the negative link between education and BMI is up to now out of questioning. More educated adults tend to have lower body mass index (BMI) and a lower risk of...
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(aged 13-17), and 299 undergraduate college students. We measure competitiveness via the likelihood of (i) winning an …, equivalent to approximately $451. This gap persists for college students, albeit with a somewhat smaller magnitude of $297 …. Finally, male teenagers and college students wager substantially less when competing against females. In turn, the gender of …
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This study examines the direct and indirect impact (via educational achievement) of student work during secondary education on later employment outcomes. To this end, we jointly model student work and later schooling and employment outcomes as a chain of discrete choices. To tackle their...
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