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

26 Pages Posted: 18 Aug 2008

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Hessel Oosterbeek

University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam School of Economics (ASE); Tinbergen Institute Amsterdam (TIA)

Mirjam van Praag

University of Amsterdam - Department of Economics; Copenhagen Business School; Tinbergen Institute; IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Auke IJsselstein

University of Amsterdam

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 intendedeffects: the effect on students' self-assessed entrepreneurial skills is insignificant and the effect on the intention to become an entrepreneur is even significantly negative.

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

JEL Classification: A20, C31, H43, H75, 120, J24, L26

Suggested Citation

Oosterbeek, Hessel and van Praag, Mirjam and van Praag, Mirjam and IJsselstein, Auke, The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions: An Evaluation of the Junior Achievement Student Mini-Company Program. IZA Discussion Paper No. 3641, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1230828 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1230828

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Mirjam Van Praag

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Copenhagen Business School ( email )

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Auke IJsselstein

University of Amsterdam ( email )

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Netherlands

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