The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship skills and motivation

This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students’ entrepreneurship skills and motivation 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 schoo...

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Published in:European economic review 2010-04, Vol.54 (3), p.442-454
Main Authors: Oosterbeek, Hessel, Praag, Mirjam van, Ijsselstein, Auke
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitudes to work
Ausbildung
Betriebswirtschaft
Betriebswirtschaftslehre
College students
Entrepreneur competencies and skills
Entrepreneur intentions and motivation
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship education
Entrepreneurship education Program evaluation Entrepreneur competencies and skills Entrepreneur intentions and motivation
Führungskraft
Higher education
Impact analysis
Leistungsmotivation
Level of education
Motivation
Niederlande
Program evaluation
Programme evaluation
Qualifikation
Selbstständiger
Skills
Students
Studies
Studium
Unternehmer
Wirkungsanalyse
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Summary:This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students’ entrepreneurship skills and motivation 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 negative.
ISSN:0014-2921
1873-572X
DOI:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2009.08.002