The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education in High School on Long-Term Entrepreneurial Performance

Niklas Elert (), Fredrik Andersson and Karl Wennberg ()
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Fredrik Andersson: Statistics Sweden, Postal: Klostergatan 23, SE-701 89 Örebro, Sweden

No 1063, Working Paper Series from Research Institute of Industrial Economics

Abstract: This paper studies the long-term impact of entrepreneurship education and training in high school on entrepreneurial entry, performance, and survival. Using propensity score matching, we compare three Swedish cohorts from Junior Achievement Company Program (JACP) alumni with a matched sample of similar individuals and follow these for up to 16 years after graduation. We find that while JACP participation increases the long-term probability of starting a firm as well as entrepreneurial incomes, there is no effect on firm survival.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship Education; Quasi-experiment; Performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D22 L25 L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2015-03-26
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-edu, nep-ent, nep-eur, nep-sbm and nep-ure
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Journal Article: The impact of entrepreneurship education in high school on long-term entrepreneurial performance (2015)
Working Paper: The impact of entrepreneurship education in high school on long - term entrepreneurial performance (2014)
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