Arbeitspapier
Lifting the Iron Curtain: School-age Education and Entrepreneurial Intentions
We exploit Germany’s reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West German control group received formal and informal education in a free-market economy, while East German students did or did not receive free-market education. Difference-in-differences estimations show that school-age education in a free-market economy increases entrepreneurial intentions. An event study supports the common-trends assumption. Results remain robust in matched samples and when we exploit within-student variation in occupational intentions to control for unobserved individual characteristics.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 5540
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Entrepreneurship
Analysis of Education
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: General
- Thema
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entrepreneurship
socialism
formal education
informal education
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Falck, Oliver
Gold, Robert
Heblich, Stephan
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2015
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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18.03.2025, 00:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Falck, Oliver
- Gold, Robert
- Heblich, Stephan
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2015