The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship competencies and intentions: an evaluation of the junior achievement student mini-company program

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Both the European Community, its member countries and the United States have stimulated schools to implement entrepreneurship programs into schooling curricula on a large scale, based on the idea that entrepreneurial competencies and mindsets must be developed at school. The leading and acclaimed worldwide program is the Junior Achievement Student Mini-Company Program. Nevertheless, so far, its effects on students’ entrepreneurship competencies and attitudes have not been evaluated. This paper analyzes the impact of the program in a Dutch college using an instrumental variables approach in a difference-in-differences framework. The results show that the program does not have the intended effects: students’ self-assessed entrepreneurial skills remain unaffected and students’ intentions to become an entrepreneur even decrease significantly.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Jena Economic Research Papers ; No. 2008,027

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economic Education and Teaching of Economics: General ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions; Social Interaction Models ; Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate ; State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions ; Education and Research Institutions: General ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Entrepreneurship
• Subject: Entrepreneurship education ; program evaluation ; entrepreneur competencies ; entrepreneur intentions ; Unternehmer ; Führungskräfteausbildung ; Betriebswirtschaftsstudium ; Wirtschaftspolitische Wirkungsanalyse ; Selbstständige ; Niederlande

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Oosterbeek, Hessel ; van Praag, C. Mirjam ; IJsselstein, Auke
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics
• (where): Jena
• (when): 2007

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/25703
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