- A-Z
- Jena Economic Resea...
- Volume 2
- The impact of entre...
- Autor(in)
- Erschienen
- 26. März 2008
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
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2008-027
- Schlagwort(e)
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entrepreneur competencies
entrepreneur intentions
Entrepreneurship education
program evaluation
- Zusammenfsg.
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Both the European Community, its member countries and the United States have stimulated schools to implement entrepreneurship programs into schooling curricula on a large scale, based on the idea that entrepreneurial competencies and mindsets must be developed at school. The leading and acclaimed worldwide program is the Junior Achievement Student Mini-Company Program. Nevertheless, so far, its effects on students’ entrepreneurship competencies and attitudes have not been evaluated. This paper analyzes the impact of the program in a Dutch college using an instrumental variables approach in a difference-in-differences framework. The results show that the program does not have the intended effects: students’ self-assessed entrepreneurial skills remain unaffected and students’ intentions to become an entrepreneur even decrease significantly.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- article research fields JER
- entrepreneurship
- JEL-Classification for JER
- A20 - General ; C31 - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models ; H43 - Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate ; H75 - State and Local Government: Health, Education, and Welfare ; I20 - General ; J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; L26 - Entrepreneurship