Schooling, capital constraints and entrepreneurial performance

Simon Parker; Mirjam van Praag

We estimate the impact of schooling and capital constraints at the time of startup on the performance of Dutch entrepreneurial ventures, taking into account the potential endogeneity and interdependence of these variables. Instrumental variable estimates indicate that a 1 percentage point relaxation of capital constraints increases entrepreneurs' gross business incomes by 3.9% on average. Education enhances entrepreneurs' performance both directly - with a rate of return of 13.7% - and indirectly, because each extra year of schooling decreases capital constraints by 1.18 percentage points. The indirect effect of education on entrepreneurs' performance is estimated to be 3.0 - 4.6%.

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Year of publication:	2005
Authors:	Parker, Simon C. ; Praag, Mirjam van
Publisher:	Rotterdam [u.a.] : Tinbergen Inst.
Subject:	entrepreneurship \| self-employment \| returns to education \| capital constraint \| liquidity constraint \| borrowing constraint \| Liquiditätsbeschränkung \| Liquidity constraint \| Selbstständige \| Self-employed \| Entrepreneurship \| Entrepreneurship approach \| Unternehmensgründung \| Business start-up \| Bildungsertrag \| Returns to education \| Unternehmensfinanzierung \| Corporate finance