Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34854 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3641
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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 location of a school but not at another location of the same school. Location choice (and thereby treatment) is instrumented by the relative distance of locations to parents' place of residence. The results show that the program does not have the intended effects: the effect on students' self-assessed entrepreneurial skills is insignificant and the effect on the intention to become an entrepreneur is even significantly negative.
Subjects: 
Entrepreneurship education
program evaluation
entrepreneur competencies
entrepreneur intentions
JEL: 
A20
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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