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The Golden Age of Nobel Economists
van Dalen, Hendrik P. - 1997
Nobel laureates in economics make their most important and creative contributionsbetween the ages of 29 and 38. The average creative age of Nobel economists is slightly belowthat of laureates in physics, and considerably younger than that of laureates in chemistry andmedicine/physiology. The...
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If you are so smart, why aren't you an Entrepreneur?
Hartog, Joop; van Praag, Mirjam; van der Sluis, Justin - 2008
How valuable are cognitive and social abilities for entrepreneurs’ incomes as compared to employees? We answer three questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an entrepreneur's earnings relative to employees? (2) Do different cognitive abilities (e.g. math...
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Returns for Entrepreneurs versus Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vis-a-vis Wage Employees
van Praag, Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van der … - 2009
How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that...
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Determinants of the Regional Demand for Higher Education
Sá, Carla; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Rietveld, Piet - 2003
Studies on the determinants of the demand for higher education typically emphasizethe relevance of socio-economic factors, but leave the spatial dimensions of the prospectivestudents’ university choices largely unexplored. In this study, we investigate the determinantsof university entrance...
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Is Earnings Uncertainty Relevant for Educational Choice? An Empirical Analysis for China
Hartog, Joop; Ding, Xiaohao; Liao, Juan - 2011
We use the method of Dominitz and Manski (1996) to solicit anticipated wagedistributions for continuing to a Master degree or going to work after completing theBachelor degree. The means of the distributions have an effect on intention to continue aspredicted by theory. The dispersions in these...
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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
and non-cognitive. The results indicate that cognitive entrepreneurial skills are unaffected by the program. However, the … program has a robust positive effect on non-cognitive entrepreneurial skills. This is surprising since previous evaluations … tentatively suggests that non-cognitive entrepreneurial skills are best developed at an early age. …
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The Heterogeneous Effects of Early Track Assignment on Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills
Cotofan, Maria; Diris, Ron; Schils, Trudie - 2019
Previous findings on (fleeting) relative age effects in school suggest that, given innate ability, too few younger and too many older students attend academic tracks. Using a regression discontinuity design around school-specific admission thresholds, we estimate the cognitive and non-cognitive...
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Less School (Costs), More (Female) Education? Lessons from Egypt Reducing Years of Compulsory Schooling
Elsayed, Ahmed; Marie, Olivier - 2020
Exploiting a unique policy reform in Egypt that reduced the number of years of compulsory schooling, we show how it unexpectedly increased education attainment as more students chose to complete the next school stage. This impact is almost entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged...
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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation
Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - 2014
We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical …
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Language Proficiency of Migrants: The Relation with Job Satisfaction and Skill Matching
Bloemen, Hans G. - 2014
language and job level. A lack of language skills may induce the migrant to work in jobs of a lower level leading to lower job …
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