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The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship competencies and intentions: An evaluation of the Junior Achievement Student Mini-Company Program

Hessel Oosterbeek, Mirjam Praag and Auke IJsselstein

No 2008-027, Jena Economics Research Papers from Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

Abstract: Both the European Community, its member countries and the United States have stimulated schools to implement entrepreneurship programs into schooling curricula on a large scale, based on the idea that entrepreneurial competencies and mindsets must be developed at school. The leading and acclaimed worldwide program is the Junior Achievement Student Mini-Company Program. Nevertheless, so far, its effects on students? entrepreneurship competencies and attitudes have not been evaluated. This paper analyzes the impact of the program in a Dutch college using an instrumental variables approach in a difference-in-differences framework. The results show that the program does not have the intended effects: students? self-assessed entrepreneurial skills remain unaffected and students? intentions to become an entrepreneur even decrease significantly.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship education; program evaluation; entrepreneur competencies; entrepreneur intentions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A20 C31 H43 H75 I20 J24 L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-03-26
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