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Entrepreneurship, Education and the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Africa
Naudé, Wim - 2017
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is impacting on the industrialization options for Africa inter alia through three interrelated sets of technologies, namely automation, additive manufacturing and the Industrial Internet. In this paper I set out the case for why Africa should industrialize....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952621
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Entrepreneurship Education and Teacher Training in Rwanda
Blimpo, Moussa - 2020
academic outcomes or skills. Treated students increased their participation in businesses by 5 percentage points, or 17% of the … substitution between entrepreneurship and employment among students in treated schools …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824424
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The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions : An Evaluation of the Junior Achievement Student Mini-Company Program
Oosterbeek, Hessel; van Praag, Mirjam; IJsselstein, Auke - 2021
This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students' entrepreneurship … program was offered to students at one location of a school but not at another location of the same school. Location choice … show that the program does not have the intendedeffects: the effect on students' self-assessed entrepreneurial skills is …
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Students are Almost as Effective as Professors in University Teaching
Feld, Jan - 2019
paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost … instructors. We conclude that hiring moderately more student instructors would not harm students, but exclusively using them will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864884
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'Teaching to Teach' Literacy
Machin, Stephen J. - 2016
Significant numbers of people have very low levels of literacy in many OECD countries and, because of this, face significant labour market penalties. Despite this, it remains unclear what teaching strategies are most useful for actually rectifying literacy deficiencies. The subject remains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990855
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Do More Educated Leaders Raise Citizens' Education?
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2013
This paper looks at the contribution of political leaders to enhance citizens' education and investigate how the educational attainment of the population is affected while a leader with higher education remains in office. For this purpose, we consider educational transitions of political leaders...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074157
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What are We Learning from Business Training and Entrepreneurship Evaluations Around the Developing World?
McKenzie, David J. - 2015
Business training programs are a popular policy option to try to improve the performance of enterprises around the world. The last few years have seen rapid growth in the number of evaluations of these programs in developing countries. We undertake a critical review of these studies with the...
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Incentivizing Team Leaders : A Firm-Level Experiment on Subjective Performance Evaluation of Leadership Skills
Gall, Thomas; Hu, Xiaocheng; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2023
In teamwork settings, providing effective leadership can be challenging for team leaders due to multitasking and the difficulty in measuring and rewarding leadership input. These challenges might lead to underprovision of leadership activities, which can ultimately impede the productivity of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014344730
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Alcohol and Student Performance : Estimating the Effect of Legal Access
Lindo, Jason M. - 2011
the effect by comparing a student's academic performance before and after turning 21. We find that students' grades fall … evolution of performance as students make progress towards their degrees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129096
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Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples
Falk, Armin - 2011
foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is … potentially problematic as students participating in experiments may behave systematically different than non …-participating students or non-students. In this paper we empirically investigate whether laboratory experiments with student samples …
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