School Competition and Students' Entrepreneurial Intentions: International Evidence Using Historical Catholic Roots of Private Schooling

Oliver Falck and Ludger Woessmann

No 5024, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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.

Keywords: entrepreneurship; private school competition; Catholic schools (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 L26 L33 Z12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2010-06
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Published - published in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 40 (2), 459-478

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