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1, pages 23-33.<P> Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of … countries and the US. Theeffect of education on the decision to become self-employed is found to be strongly positive … education, the greater the likelihood that he/she starts a business.Implications for entrepreneurship research and practice are …
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See also 'Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous?' in <I>Entrepreneurship Research Journal</I> (2012), 2 …(3), 1-27.<P> Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however … (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental variables can provide a way out. However, three questions remain: whether …
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This discussion paper was published in the <I> Economics of Education Review</I> (2012). Vol. 31(5), 515-523.<P> The … validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In this paper … of the instrument). The size of the bias is in many cases smaller than the standard error of education’s estimated …
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Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of its influence …
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The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In … (perfect validity of the instrument). The size of the bias is in many cases smaller than the standard error of education …
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Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from …) income and of education. Using instrumental variables can provide a way out. However, three questions remain: whether … that the relationship between education and entrepreneurial income is indeed endogenous and that the impact of endogeneity …
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A Direct Monte Carlo (DMC) approach is introduced for posterior simulation in theInstrumental Variables (IV) model with one possibly endogenous regressor, multipleinstruments and Gaussian errors under a flat prior. This DMC method can also beapplied in an IV model (with one or multiple...
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's education's instrument used by Hoogerheide et al. (2012a). Even without making use of parallelized computation, an efficiency …
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Impact evaluations of development programmes usually focus on a comparison of participants with a control group. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the programme’s impact. Based on a unique large-scale quantitative...
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Impact evaluations of development programmes usually focus on a comparison of participants with a control group. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the programme’s impact. Based on a unique large-scale quantitative...
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