- Author
- Year
- 2012
- Title
- The effect of early entrepreneurship education: evidence from a randomized field experiment
- Number of pages
- 30
- Publisher
- Amsterdam / Rotterdam: Tinbergen Institute
- Serie
- Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper
- Volume | Edition (Serie)
- TI 2012/041/3
- Document type
- Working paper
- Faculty
- Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB)
- Institute
- Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute (ASE-RI)
- Abstract
-
The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To this end, we conduct a randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade of primary school. We focus on pupils' development of relevant skill sets for entrepreneurial activity, both cognitive and non-cognitive. The results indicate that cognitive entrepreneurial skills are unaffected by the program. However, the program has a robust positive effect on non-cognitive entrepreneurial skills. This is surprising since previous evaluations found zero or negative effects. Because these earlier studies all pertain to education for adolescents, our result tentatively suggests that non-cognitive entrepreneurial skills are best developed at an early age.
- Link
- Link
- Language
- English
- Permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.395583
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