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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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How much of a socialist legacy? The re-emergence of entrepreneurship in the East German transformation to a market economy

Fritsch, Michael; Bublitz, Elisabeth; Sorgner, Alina; … - In: Small Business Economics 43 (2014) 2, pp. 427-446

—relates to the re-emergence of entrepreneurship in East Germany. This region is particularly well suited for such a study because … period, suggesting the existence of a long-lasting regional entrepreneurship culture that can be regarded as an informal …

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Why Did Self-Employment Increase so Strongly in Germany?

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Sorgner, Alina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification. Applying the non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, we find that the main factors driving these changes in the overall level of self-employment are demographic...

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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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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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