TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Oosterbeek, Hessel
AU  - Praag, Mirjam C. van
AU  - IJsselstein, Auke
        TI  - The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions: An Evaluation of the Junior Achievement Student Mini-Company Program
        PY  - 2008/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3641
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3641
        AB  - 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.

        KW  - entrepreneur intentions
KW  - entrepreneurship education
KW  - program evaluation
KW  - entrepreneur competencies
        ER  -