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Education and Entrepreneurial Choice: An Instrumental Variables Analysis

Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - 2009

Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of its influence … US. Theeffect of education on the decision to become self-employed is found to be strongly positive,much higher than the … estimated effect in case no instrumental variables are used. That is, thehigher the respondent's level of education, the greater …

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The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions

Oosterbeek, Hessel; van Praag, Mirjam; IJsselstein, Auke - 2008

This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students’ entrepreneurship …

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Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework

Douhan, Robin; van Praag, Mirjam - 2009

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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Can competitiveness predict education and labor market outcomes? Evidence from incentivized choice and survey measures

Buser, Thomas; Niederle, Muriel; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2020

We assess the predictive power of two measures of competitiveness for education and labor market outcomes using a large … are strong and consistent predictors of income, occupation, completed level of education and field of study. The … in education and labor market outcomes. …

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Peers at Work: From the Field to the Lab

van Veldhuizen, Roel; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Sonnemans, Joep - 2014

In an influential study, Mas and Moretti (2009) find that "worker effort is positively related to the productivity of workers who see him, but not workers who do not see him". They interpret this as evidence that social pressure can reduce free riding. In this paper we report an attempt to...

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School Choice and Competition

Dijkgraaf, Elbert; van der Geest, Stephanie; Gradus, … - 2009

the leading principle of the Dutch education system since the beginning of the 20th century. Based on panel data for the … Netherlands we show that there is a relation between competition and student achievement in upper secondary education, but that it …

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Genetic Fortune: Winning or Losing Education, Income, and Health

Kweon, Hyeokmoon; Burik, Casper A.P.; Karlsson Linnér, … - 2020

-economic status and better health, partly via intervenable environmental pathways such as education. The positive returns to schooling … education, income, and health are partly due the outcomes of a genetic lottery. However, the consequences of different genetic … endowments are malleable, for example via policies that target education. …

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Good or Bad? Short- versus Long-Term Effects of Multigrading on Child Achievement

Barbetta, Gian Paolo; Chuard-Keller, Patrick; Sorrenti, … - 2022

This paper studies the effect of multigrading-mixing children of different ages in the same classroom-on students' short- versus long-term academic achievement in Italy. We cope with the endogeneity of multigrading (and class size) through an instrumental variable identification strategy based...

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Human Capital Formation: The Importance of Endogenous Longevity

Galama, Titus; van Kippersluis, Hans - 2022

We present a theory of human capital, with its two most essential components, health capital and, what we term, skill capital, endogenously determined within the model. Using the theory, and a calibrated version of it, we uncover and highlight an important economic mechanism driving...

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Using Genes to Explore the Effects of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills on Education and Labor Market Outcomes

Buser, Thomas; Ahlskog, Rafael; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2023

attainment. Our results also demonstrate that education and labor market outcomes are partially the result of a genetic lottery. …

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