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

This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students' entrepreneurship competencies and intentions using an instrumental variables approach in a difference-in-differences framework. We exploit that the program was offered to students at one location of a school but not at another location of the same school. Location choice (and thereby treatment) is instrumented by the relative distance of locations to parents' place of residence. The results show that the program does not have the intended effects: the effect on students' self-assessed entrepreneurial skills is insignificant and the effect on the intention to become an entrepreneur is even significantly negative.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 3641

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Economic Education and Teaching of Economics: General
Thema
Entrepreneurship education
program evaluation
entrepreneur competencies
entrepreneur intentions
Unternehmer
Führungskräfteausbildung
Betriebswirtschaftsstudium
Wirkungsanalyse
Selbstständige
Niederlande

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Oosterbeek, Hessel
van Praag, C. Mirjam
IJsselstein, Auke
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2008

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2008082164
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Oosterbeek, Hessel
  • van Praag, C. Mirjam
  • IJsselstein, Auke
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2008

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