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School competition and students' entrepreneurial intentions: International evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling

Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

School choice research mostly focuses on academic outcomes. Policymakers increasingly view entrepreneurial traits as a non-cognitive outcome important for economic growth. We use international PISA-2006 student-level data to estimate the effect of private-school competition on students'...

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Entrepreneurship : The Role of Extreme Events

Brück, Tilman; Llussa, Fernanda; Tavares, José - 2012

terrorist attacks influence individual perceptions of the rewards to entrepreneurship and, more surprisingly, extreme events … affect entrepreneurship rates positively in a robust and significant way …

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Entrepreneurship : the role of extreme events

Brück, Tilman; Llussá, Fernanda; Tavares, José - In: European journal of political economy 27 (2011), pp. 78-88

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Entrepreneurship and Public Policy

Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael - 2011

Public policy is currently shifting from SME policy towards entrepreneurship policy, which supports entrepreneurship … public policy affects the prevalence and performance of both productive entrepreneurship and so-called high …-impact entrepreneurship in turn. Although varying contexts and economic systems make prescribing a general panacea impossible, a number of …

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What accounts for international differences in student performance? : a re-examination using PISA data

Fuchs, Thomas; Woessmann, Ludger - 2004

We use the PISA student-level achievement database to estimate international education production functions. Student characteristics, family backgrounds, home inputs, resources, teachers and institutions are all significantly related to math, science and reading achievement. Our models account...

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Universal Basic Skills : What Countries Stand to Gain

Hanushek, Eric Alan (contributor); … - 2015

While access to schooling has expanded around the world, many countries have not realised the hoped-for improvements in economic and social well-being. Access to education by itself is an incomplete goal for development; many students leave the education system without basic proficiency in...