Arbeitspapier

The Effects of Entrepreneurship Education

Entrepreneurship education ranks highly on policy agendas in Europe and the US, but little research is available to assess its impacts. In this context it is of primary importance to understand whether entrepreneurship education raises intentions to be entrepreneurial generally or whether it helps students determine how well suited they are for entrepreneurship. We develop a theoretical model of Bayesian learning in which entrepreneurship education generates signals which help students to evaluate their own aptitude for entrepreneurial tasks. We derive predictions from the model and test them using data from a compulsory entrepreneurship course at a German university. Using survey responses from 189 students ex ante and ex post, we find that entrepreneurial propensity declined somewhat in spite of generally good evaluations of the class. Our tests of Bayesian updating provide support for the notion that students receive valuable signals and learn about their own type in the entrepreneurship course.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Discussion Paper ; No. 2009-11

Klassifikation
Management
Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Entrepreneurship
New Firms; Startups
Thema
entrepreneurship
entrepreneurship education
Bayes’ Rule
learning
signals
Betriebswirtschaftsstudium
Führungskräfteentwicklung
Lehrplan
Entrepreneurship-Ansatz
Wirkungsanalyse
Test
Bayes-Statistik

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Weber, Richard
von Graevenitz, Georg
Harhoff, Dietmar
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaft
(wo)
München
(wann)
2009

DOI
doi:10.5282/ubm/epub.10966
Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-10966-4
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Weber, Richard
  • von Graevenitz, Georg
  • Harhoff, Dietmar
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaft

Entstanden

  • 2009

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