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dc.contributor.authorOosterbeek, Hesselen
dc.contributor.authorvan Praag, C. Mirjamen
dc.contributor.authorIJsselstein, Aukeen
dc.date.accessioned2008-03-28-
dc.date.accessioned2009-07-27T09:40:23Z-
dc.date.available2009-07-27T09:40:23Z-
dc.date.issued2007-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/25703-
dc.description.abstractBoth 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.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aFriedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics |cJenaen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aJena Economic Research Papers |x2008,027en
dc.subject.jelA20en
dc.subject.jelC31en
dc.subject.jelH43en
dc.subject.jelH75en
dc.subject.jelI20en
dc.subject.jelJ24en
dc.subject.jelL26en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordEntrepreneurship educationen
dc.subject.keywordprogram evaluationen
dc.subject.keywordentrepreneur competenciesen
dc.subject.keywordentrepreneur intentionsen
dc.subject.stwUnternehmeren
dc.subject.stwFührungskräfteausbildungen
dc.subject.stwBetriebswirtschaftsstudiumen
dc.subject.stwWirtschaftspolitische Wirkungsanalyseen
dc.subject.stwSelbstständigeen
dc.subject.stwNiederlandeen
dc.titleThe impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship competencies and intentions: an evaluation of the junior achievement student mini-company program-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn560542666en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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