School competition and students' entrepreneurial intentions. International evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling.

Autor/inn/en	Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger
Titel	School competition and students' entrepreneurial intentions. International evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling.
Quelle	München: CESifo (2010), 29 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	CESifo working paper. 3086. Economics of Education
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Bildungsverhalten; Schätzung; Privatschule; Katholizismus; Wettbewerb; Unternehmer; Arbeitspapier; Welt
Abstract	School choice research mostly focuses on academic outcomes. Policymakers increasingly view entrepreneurial traits as a non-cognitive outcome important for economic growth. We use international PISA-2006 student-level data to estimate the effect of private-school competition on students' entrepreneurial intentions. We exploit Catholic-Church resistance to state schooling in 19th century as a natural experiment to obtain exogenous variation in current private-school shares. Our instrumental-variable results suggest that a 10 percentage-point higher private-school share raises students' entrepreneurial intentions by 0.3-0.5 percentage points (11-18 percent of the international mean) even after controlling for current Catholic shares, students' academic skills, and parents' entrepreneurial occupation.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2010/4