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The Impact of Gender Diversity on the Performance of Business Teams: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Oosterbeek, Hessel; van Praag, Mirjam - 2011

This paper reports about a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate students in business studies start up a venture as part of their curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams...

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Unraveling the Shift to the Entrepreneurial Economy

Audretsch, D.B.; Thurik, A.R. - 2010

economy. In particular, the empirical evidence provides consistent support that (1) the role of entrepreneurship has … may be that the current approach to entrepreneurship policy is misguided. The priority should not be on entrepreneurship …

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Why do Entrepreneurial Parents have Entrepreneurial Children?

Lindquist, Matthew; 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 …

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Ability Dispersion and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; van Praag, Mirjam - 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...

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The Effect of Early Entrepreneurship Education: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Huber, Laura Rosendahl; 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 …

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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship

Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; van Praag, C. Mirjam - 2011

-averse peoplemight be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior researchhas generated mixed evidence about the … effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …

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The Importance of Being in Control of Business: Work Satisfaction of Employers, Own-account Workers and Employees

Hessels, Jolanda; Millán, José María; Román, Concepción - 2015

Self-employed workers can be own-account workers who control their own work or employers who not only are their own boss but also direct others (their employees). We expect both types of self-employed, i.e., own-account workers and employers, to enjoy more independence in determining their work...

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Impeded Industrial Restructuring: The Growth Penalty

Audretsch, D.B.; Carree, M.A.; van Stel, A.J.; Thurik, A.R. - 2000

This paper documents that a process of industrial restructuring has been transforming the developed economies, where large corporations are accounting for less economic activity and small firms are accounting for a greatershare of economic activity. Not all countries, however, are experiencing...

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Business Ownership and Economic Growth in 23 OECD Countries

Carree, Martin; van Stel, André; Thurik, Roy; … - 2000

In the present paper we address the relationship between the extentof business ownership (self-employment) and economic development. We will focusupon three issues. First, how is the equilibrium rate of business ownershiprelated to the stage of economic development? Second, what is the speed...

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Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance

van der Sluis, Justin; van Praag, Mirjam; Vijverberg, Wim - 2003

This meta-analytical review of empirical studies of the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship selection and … entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …

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