Please use this form to submit your study for inclusion into our database. It will be checked by a member of the Innovation Growth Lab team, who may be in contact to ask for more information. Your email address * Your name * Title * The name of the study Short summary This entrepreneurship education programme with final year primary school students in the Netherlands showed significant effects on student's non-cognitive entrepreneurial skills following the intervention. A brief description of the project's goals and its current state Abstract <p>The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To this end, a randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade of primary school is conduct. The focus is on pupils׳ development of entrepreneurship knowledge and a set of non-cognitive skills relevant for entrepreneurial activity. The results indicate that knowledge is 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 entrepreneurship education for adolescents, this result tentatively suggests that non-cognitive entrepreneurial skills are best developed at an early age. As the entrepreneurship program has various features besides its entrepreneurship content, it must be left to future research to determine which specific element has the greatest impact on the development of non-cognitive entrepreneurial skills.</p> The full abstract of the study, if available Links http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014292114001263 Links to any published papers and related discussions Authors * Affiliations Academic and other institutes that the authors of the study are members of Delivery partner Organisations involved in delivering the trial, if appropriate Year Year Year199419951996199719981999200020012002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026 Month MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec Day Day12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 Journal Journal publishing the study, if available Publication stage * Working Paper Published Ongoing Research Forthcoming Discussion Paper Research theme * Entrepreneurship Innovation Business Growth Country Country or countries where this study took place. Topics What sort of topics does the study cover? Sample attributes Hypotheses / research question The entrepreneurship education programme called BizWorld, which is one of the leading entrepreneurship education programs for primary schools worldwide. The programme consists of 5 teaching days over a 2-4 weeks period, leading the participating pupils through a firm's business cycle from startup to liquidation, while exposing students the various aspects of business administration and entrepreneurship. Sample Trial population and sample selection Schools in the Netherlands who signed up for BizWorld were invited to participate in the research project. The final sample included 85 schools (46 in 2010 and 39 in 2011), 118 classes, and 2,751 pupils. Classes were randomly assigned to treatment and control. Final sample included pupils who filled out both questionnaires (response rate 87.7%). Number of treatment groups Size of treatment groups 77 classes Size of control group Unit of analysis Clustered? Yes No Cluster details Trial attributes Treatment description The entrepreneurship education program called BizWorld, which is one of the leading entrepreneurship education programs for primary schools worldwide. The program consists of 5 teaching days over a 2-4 weeks period, leading the participating pupils through a firm's business cycle from startup to liquidation, while exposing students the various aspects of business administration and entrepreneurship. Rounds of data collection Baseline data collection and method Extensive questionnaire measuring knowledge, skills, intentions, and a plethora of individual background characteristics. Data collection method and data collected Evaluation Outcome variables <p>Non-cognitive Entrepreneurial Skills: risk taking propensity, creativity, need for achievement, self-efficacy, social orientation, pro-activity, persistence, analytical skills, motivating skills. Entrepreneurship Knowledge: percentage of correct knowledge questions. Entrepreneurial Intentions: questions regarding future career aspirations.</p> Results <p>The programme had a positive impact on non-cognitive entrepreneurial skills, such as creativity, self-efficacy, need for achievement, risk taking propensity, persistence, proactivity and analytical skills. But it did not help students to build their knowledge on what an entrepreneur does or what it entails to run a business.If anything, the programme negatively influenced the preferences of students to pursue a professional career as entrepreneurs.</p> Intervention costs Not available. Cost benefit ratio Reference Huber, L. H., Sloof, R., & van Praag, M., 2014. 'The Effect of Early Entrepreneurship Education: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment'. European Economic Review, vol. 72, pages 76-97. Citation for use in academic references
