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Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more...
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We report the results of an empirical analysis of name ordering strategies used for multi-authored academic papers in economics. We distinguish two name-ordering outcomes: alphabetic and non -alphabetic. We investigate two questions. (1) What are the determinants of an author group's name...
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This meta-analytical review of empirical studies of the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship in selection and … economy. Furthermore, more educated workers typically end up in wage employment and prefer nonfarm entrepreneurship to farming …
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the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship …
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The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To this end, we conduct a … randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade …
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In the media role models are increasingly being acknowledged as an influential factor in explaining the reasons for the choice of occupation and career. Various conceptual studies have proposed links between role models and entrepreneurial intentions. However, empirical research aimed at...
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We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...
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We assess the broad importance of family and community background for entrepreneurship outcomes. We go beyond … traditional, intergenerational associations by estimating sibling correlations in unincorporated and incorporated entrepreneurship … and incorporated entrepreneurship than for less committed or unincorporated entrepreneurship; they are also higher for …
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employees towards becoming entrepreneurs: exit from the current firm and entry into entrepreneurship. In other words, we study … show that same-gender entrepreneurial bosses have a great impact on employees' future entrepreneurship choices, especially … bosses on female employees' transition into entrepreneurship. We show that the female boss effect is greater than other …
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inequality in the household. We find no evidence of non-pecuniary benefits or costs of co-entrepreneurship …
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