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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 … instruction, consistent with the reform's features. These effects on pedagogy did not translate into improvements in student …
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developing countries. We exploit exogenous variation in the implementation of Rwanda's entrepreneurship education reform in …The persistently high employment share of the informal sector makes entrepreneurship a necessity for youth in many … controlled trial, we evaluated a three-year intensive training for entrepreneurship teachers, finding pedagogical changes as …
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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 … found zero or negative effects. Because these earlier studies all pertain to education for adolescents, our result …
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In this paper we investigate whether peers’ behavior influences the choice of college major. Using a unique dataset of students at Bocconi University and exploiting the organization of teaching at this institution, we are able to identify the endogenous effect of peers on such decision through...
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This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students' entrepreneurship …
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performance is nonlinear. The evidence supports the idea that progressive education promotes social capital. …
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why different groups or societies develop different attitudes towards human capital formation, entrepreneurship, and …
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Books shape how children learn about society and norms, in part through representation of different characters. We introduce new artificial intelligence methods for systematically converting images into data and apply them, along with text analysis methods, to measure the representation of skin...
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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 … found zero or negative effects. Because these earlier studies all pertain to education for adolescents, our result …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279352
Fueled by new evidence, there has been renewed interest about the effects of birth order on human capital accumulation. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more stringent disciplinary environments in response to their...
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