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Risk, Uncertainty and Entrepreneurship: Evidence From a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment

Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is …

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Entrepreneurship and innovation networks

Karlsson, Charlie; Warda, Peter - In: Small Business Economics 43 (2014) 2, pp. 393-398

In this paper, we give a general introduction to the notion of entrepreneurship and how it has many complex meanings … regional policy issues. The most apparent concerns conditions conducive for entrepreneurship in the form of new firms and firm …

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

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

This discussion paper resulted in an article in Management Science. Volume 59 issue 7, pages 1514-1528. This paper reports on 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...

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The location of new firms - Influence of commuting behaviour

Backman, Mikaela; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2015

In this paper, we analyse where people who become self-employed actually start their firms. In the entrepreneurship … compared to the municipality of residence. Our results indicate that the entrepreneurship literature must reconsider its …

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It's the Opportunity Cost, stupid! How Self-Employment responds to Financial Incentives of Return, Risk and Skew

Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in selfemploymentrather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as a puzzle. We offer a focus on theopportunity cost, i.e. the wages given up as an employee. Information on income...

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Illegal Entrepreneurship Experience

Aidis, Ruta; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of human capital, is related to the performance and motivation of …

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Ability Dispersion and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 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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Ability Dispersion and Team Performance

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

What is the effect of dispersed levels of cognitive ability of members of a (business) team on their team’s performance? This paper reports the results of a field experiment in which 573 students in 49 teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. We ensured exogenous...

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Entrepreneurial Couples

Dahl, Michael S.; Praag, Mirjam van; Thompson, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

We study possible motivations for co-entrepenurial couples to start up a joint firm, using a sample of 1,069 Danish couples that established a joint enterprise between 2001 and 2010. We compare their pre-entry characteristics, firm performance and postdissolution private and financial outcomes...

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

Huber, Laura Rosendahl; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

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 of … primary school. We focus on pupils’ development of entrepreneurship knowledge and a set of non-cognitive skills relevant for …

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