Education and Entrepreneurial Choice: An Instrumental Variables Analysis

Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of its influence, however, is difficult since it is considered to be an endogenous variable. This study accounts for this endogeneity by using an instrumental variables approach

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Year of publication:	2009-10-13
Authors:	Block, Joern H. ; Hoogerheide, Lennart ; Thurik, Roy
Institutions:	Tinbergen Institute
Subject:	Occupational choice \| entrepreneurial choice \| education \| self-employment \| endogeneity \| instrumental variables

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The text is part of a series Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers Number 09-088/4
Classification:	C35 - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models ; I20 - Education. General ; J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; L26 - Entrepreneurship
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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