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The effect of early entrepreneurship education: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
Rosendahl Huber, Laura; Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012
The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To this end, we conduct a … randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282324
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Risk, balanced skills and entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; van Praag, Mirjam - 2011
the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282614
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Why do entrepreneurial parents have entrepreneurial children?
Lindquist, Matthew J.; Sol, Joeri; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012
Parental entrepreneurship is a strong, probably the strongest, determinant of own entrepreneurship. We explore the … origins of this intergenerational association in entrepreneurship. In particular, we identify the separate effects of pre- and … biological parents. Moreover, we use comparable data on entrepreneurship for a large, representative sample of the Swedish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287617
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Ability dispersion and team performance: A field experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander M.; Parker, Simon Charles; van … - 2012
This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. Exogenous variation in - otherwise random - team composition is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291418
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It's the Opportunity Cost, Stupid! How Self-Employment Responds to Financial Incentives of Return, Risk and Skew
Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; van Praag, Mirjam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in self-employment rather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as a puzzle. We offer a focus on the opportunity cost, i.e. the wages given up as an employee. Information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369109
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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; van Praag, Mirjam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395440
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The Effect of Early Entrepreneurship Education: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Rosendahl Huber, Laura; Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To this end, we conduct a … randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279352
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It's the opportunity cost, stupid!: How self-employment responds to financial incentives of return, risk and skew
Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; van Praag, Mirjam - 2011
There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in self-employment rather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as a puzzle. We offer a focus on the opportunity cost, i.e. the wages given up as an employee. Information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282326
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Ethnic diversity and team performance: A field experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander M.; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012
One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the causal impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a randomized field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287629
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German Financial State Aid during COVID-19 Pandemic: Higher Impact among Digitalized Self-Employed
Bertschek, Irene; Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander S.; … - 2022
In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426457