Can Entrepreneurial Activity be Taught? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Central America
By B. Klinger, Matthias Schündeln. 2011
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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education
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- Michael Leatherbee
- Juanita González-Uribe
- Alexander Newman
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Citations in the corpus
- Entrepreneurship Education and Entry into Self-Employment Among University Graduates (2016, background): “Recent contributions show that business training can affect enterprise owners’ practices, although effects on employment or productivity are more limited (Bruhn & Zia, 2013; Drexler, Fischer, & Schoar, 2014; Karlan & Valdivia, 2011; Klinger & Schündeln, 2011).”
- How does microfinance enhance entrepreneurial outcomes in emerging economies? The mediating mechanisms of psychological and social capital (2014, background): “Finally, Klinger and Schündeln (2011) found that the provision of business training in three Central American countries increased the probability that a participant would start a new business or expand an existing business.”
- Do Interventions Targeted at Micro-Entrepreneurs and Small and Medium-Sized Firms Create Jobs? A Systematic Review of the Evidence for Low and Middle Income Countries (2014, background): “…group: female microentrepreneurs who are microcredit clients. yes Peru (regional) Micro yes RCT up to 2 years E: insignificant BC: insignificant Klinger and Schündeln (2011) Multi-phased business plan competition yes El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua (withincountry distribution Micro and…”
- What are We Learning from Business Training and Entrepreneurship Evaluations Around the Developing World? (2012, background): “A third strategy is for individuals to apply to participate in training as part of a competition, as Technoserve does (Klinger and Schündeln 2011), to be screened for interest in participating (Valdivia 2012), or for students to apply to participate in an entrepreneurship course (Premand et al.…”
- The Effects of Business Accelerators on Venture Performance: Evidence from Start-Up Chile (2017, background): “Start-ups can 4 Our paper also complements the work by Klinger and Schundeln (2011) and McKenzie (2015), who look at the impact of formal and structured business training programs offered by business plan competitions.”