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The Sensitive Nature of Social Trust to Intelligence
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice; Azia-Dimbu, … - 2016
This study investigates the relationship between social trust and intelligence. The extreme bound analysis of Levine and Renelt is employed to directly assess the strength of the nexus. The findings confirm the positive and robust nexus between social trust and intelligence. We have contributed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596341
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320274
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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 competencies and intentions using an instrumental variables approach in a difference-in-differences framework. We exploit that the program was offered to students at one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325703
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325787
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The Origins and Extent of Entrepreneurial Action-Orientedness: An Experimental Study
Barirani, Ahmad; Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam - 2017
We test the hypothesis, based on popular and theoretical perspectives, that entrepreneurs are more action-oriented than other occupational groups. We compare their playing strategies in an optimal stopping game using a randomized online experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586731
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Are Entrepreneurs more Optimistic and Overconfident than Managers and Employees?
Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam - 2015
Empirical evidence supports the conventional wisdom that entrepreneurs are more optimistic and overconfident than others. However, the same holds true for top managers. In this lab-in-the-field experiment we directly compare the scores of entrepreneurs, managers and employees on a comprehensive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403578
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Bread and bullets
Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414226
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Cooperation, motivation and social balance
Bosworth, Steven; Singer, Tania; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness", whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People … economic decisions not merely by modifying incentives operating through given preferences, but also by influencing people …'s motives (thereby changing their preferences) and by changing the distribution of dispositional types in the population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414791
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Identity-driven cooperation versus competition
Snower, Dennis J.; Bosworth, Steven - 2015
This paper seeks to extend the domain of identity economics by exploring motivational foundations of in-group cooperation and out-group competition. On this basis, we explore the reflexive interaction between individual economic decisions and social identities in response to technological change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414792
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Bread and Bullets
Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479219