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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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The effect of early entrepreneurship education: Evidence from a field experiment

Huber, Laura Rosendahl; Sloof, Randolph; Van Praag, Mirjam - In: European Economic Review 72 (2014) C, pp. 76-97

The aim 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 …

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Do Social PreferencesIncrease Productivity? Field experimental evidence from fishermen in Toyoma Bay

Carpenter, Jeffrey; Seki, Erika - 2005

We provide a reason for the wider economics profession to take social preferences, a concern for the outcomes achieved by other reference agents, seriously. Although, we show that student measures of social preference elicited in an experiment have little external validity when compared to...

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Do Social Preferences Increase Productivity? Field Experimental Evidence from Fishermen in Toyama Bay

Carpenter, Jeffrey; Seki, Erika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We provide a reason for the wider economics profession to take social preferences, a concern for the outcomes achieved by other reference agents, seriously. Although we show that student measures of social preference elicited in an experiment have little external validity when compared to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761899

Fostering a Creative Economy to Drive Korean Growth

Jones, Randall S.; Kim, Myungkyoo - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

-and-acquisition market and foster entrepreneurship. A creative economy also depends on making SMEs, which account for 87% of employment, more …

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Promoting the Financing of SMEs and Start-ups in Korea

Jones, Randall S.; Kim, Myungkyoo - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

role of business angels, activate the merger-andacquisition market and foster entrepreneurship. A creative economy also …

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Ability matching and survival of start-ups

Müller, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

In this paper, I analyse how the survival of new firms is affected by the average ability level in the founding team, the team size, team members' homogeneity with respect to ability, and team members' heterogeneity with respect to education. As a theoretical basis, I apply the O-ring theory...

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The effect of financial resource availability on entrepreneurial orientation, customer orientation and firm performance in an international context: an empirical analysis from Aust...

Filser, Matthias; Eggers, Fabian; Kraus, Sascha; … - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 19 (2014) 1, pp. 7-30

This study investigates the impact of financial resource availability on entrepreneurial orientation (EO), customer orientation (CO) and on growth in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in Austria and Hungary. Structural equation modeling revealed that financial resource availability is...

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Ambitious entrepreneurship: Antecedents and consequences

HERMANS, Julie; VANDERSTRAETEN, Johanna; DEJARDIN, Marcus; … - Faculteit Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen, … - 2012

In the recent literature on entrepreneurship there is a growing body of knowledge that recognizes that some … success. Consequently, it is not surprising that ambitious entrepreneurship gradually becomes a topic of high interest for … structured overview of existing literature on ambitious entrepreneurship. Our analysis confirms that ambitious entrepreneurs are …

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Entrepreneurship and team participation: An experimental study

Cooper, David J.; Saral, Krista Jabs - In: European Economic Review 59 (2013) C, pp. 126-140

Entrepreneurs are surprisingly unlikely to have partners. One possible explanation for this is that entrepreneurs have distinctive preferences for working alone rather than in teams. However, a number of alternative explanations exist, such as an inability to locate suitable partners or low...

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