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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 … entrepreneurs, managers and employees on a comprehensive set of measures of optimism and overconfidence (n = 2,058). The results … show that on average entrepreneurs are more optimistic than others in their dispositional optimism and attributional style …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403578
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Risk, Uncertainty and Entrepreneurship: Evidence From a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment
Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam - 2014
Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is … mixed. To better understand the unique behavioral characteristics of entrepreneurs and the causes of these mixed results, we … perform a large 'lab-in-the-field' experiment comparing entrepreneurs to managers - a suitable comparison group - and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491367
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The Effect of Early Entrepreneurship Education: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Huber, Laura Rosendahl; Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012
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 of primary school. We focus on pupils' development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326407
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The effect of early entrepreneurship education: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
Rosendahl Huber, Laura; Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012
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 of primary school. We focus on pupils' development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282324
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Risk, balanced skills and entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; van Praag, Mirjam - 2011
likely to become entrepreneurs. By not having taken this possible linkage into account, previous research has underestimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282614
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Why do entrepreneurial parents have entrepreneurial children?
Lindquist, Matthew J.; Sol, Joeri; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012
Parental entrepreneurship is a strong, probably the strongest, determinant of own entrepreneurship. We explore the origins of this intergenerational association in entrepreneurship. In particular, we identify the separate effects of pre- and post-birth factors (nature and nurture), by using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287617
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Ability dispersion and team performance: A field experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander M.; Parker, Simon Charles; van … - 2012
This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. Exogenous variation in - otherwise random - team composition is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291418
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The Impact of Gender Diversity on the Performance of Business Teams: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Oosterbeek, Hessel; van Praag, Mirjam - 2011
This paper reports about a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate students in business studies start up a venture as part of their curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325918
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Why do Entrepreneurial Parents have Entrepreneurial Children?
Lindquist, Matthew; Sol, Joeri; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012
Parental entrepreneurship is a strong, probably the strongest, determinant of own entrepreneurship. We explore the origins of this intergenerational association in entrepreneurship. In particular, we identify the separate effects of pre- and post-birth factors (nature and nurture), by using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326312
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Ability Dispersion and Team Performance: A Field Experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012
This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. Exogenous variation in - otherwise random - team composition is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326380