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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449993
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002166499
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The economics of international differences in educational achievement
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003967532
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Which institutions encourage entrepreneurs to create larger firms?
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2011
We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across … grow faster. We test these hypotheses using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys in 55 countries for 2001 … property rights. -- entrepreneurship ; institutions ; corruption ; property rights ; government ; Global Entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009152794
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Which institutions encourage entrepreneurs to create larger firms?
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008909493
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Better means more : property rights and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2009
This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional … entrepreneurship, but has less pronounced effects for entrepreneurial entry. The availability of finance and the fiscal burden matter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003896204
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School competition and students' entrepreneurial intention : international evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling
Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
shares, students’ academic skills, and parents’ entrepreneurial occupation. -- private school competition ; entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003975560
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School competition and students' entrepreneurial intentions : international evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling
Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
shares, students' academic skills, and parents' entrepreneurial occupation. -- Private school competition ; entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003983640
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The emergence of the global fintech market : economic and technological determinants
Haddad, Christian; Hornuf, Lars - 2016 - This version: August 25, 2016
We investigate the economic and technological determinants inducing entrepreneurs to establish ventures with the purpose of reinventing financial technology (fintech). We find that countries witness more fintech startup formations when the latest technology is readily available, capital markets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011529968
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The emergence of the global fintech market : economic and technological determinants
Haddad, Christian; Hornuf, Lars - 2016 - This Version: August 25, 2016
We investigate the economic and technological determinants inducing entrepreneurs to establish ventures with the purpose of reinventing financial technology (fintech). We find that countries witness more fintech startup formations when the latest technology is readily available and people have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547910