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The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions: An Evaluation of the Junior Achievement Student Mini-Company Program

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Oosterbeek, Hessel () (University of Amsterdam)
van Praag, Mirjam () (University of Amsterdam)
IJsselstein, Auke () (University of Amsterdam)

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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.

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Keywords: entrepreneur competencies; program evaluation; entrepreneurship education; entrepreneur intentions;

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A20 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - General
C31 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models
H43 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate
H75 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - Health, Education, and Welfare
J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship

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  1. Edwin Leuven & Mikael Lindahl & Hessel Oosterbeek & Dinand Webbink, 2007. "The Effect of Extra Funding for Disadvantaged Pupils on Achievement," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 89(4), pages 721-736, 07. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  2. Martin Valdivia & Dean Karlan, 2006. "Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on Microfinance Clients and Institutions," Working Papers 941, Economic Growth Center, Yale University. [Downloadable!]
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  3. Justin van der Sluis & Mirjam van Praag & Arjen van Witteloostuijn, 2007. "Why Are the Returns to Education Higher for Entrepreneurs than for Employees?," IZA Discussion Papers 3058, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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  1. Richard Weber & Georg von Graevenitz & Dietmar Harhoff, 2009. "The Effects of Entrepreneurship Education," Discussion Papers 269, SFB/TR 15 Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems, Free University of Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Bonn, University of Mannheim, University of Munich. [Downloadable!]
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