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The More Business Owners the Merrier? The Role of Tertiary Education,
André van Stel and Mirjam Praag, from EIM Business and Policy Research (2011)

The Returns to Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Matched Person-firm Data*,
Mirjam van Praag and Arvid Raknerud, from Emerald Group Publishing Limited (2021)
Keywords: Returns to entrepreneurship, earnings distribution, matched person-firm data, incorporated entrepreneurs, self-employment, event study design, gender gap, L26, C23, J31, G32

The More Business Owners the Merrier? The Role of Tertiary Education,
Mirjam Praag and André van Stel, from Tinbergen Institute (2011)
Keywords: entrepreneurship, business ownership, human capital, (returns to) education, cross-country comparison, production function

Revenue drift, incentives, and effort allocation in social enterprises,
Theodor Vladasel, Simon C. Parker, Randolph Sloof and Mirjam van Praag, in Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (2024)

Does relative grading help male students? Evidence from a field experiment in the classroom,
Eszter Czibor, Sander Onderstal, Randolph Sloof and C. Mirjam van Praag, in Economics of Education Review (2020)
Keywords: Grade incentives; Competition; Education; Gender; Field experiment;

Who values the status of the entrepreneur?,
Mirjam Praag, from Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (2009)
Keywords: Entrepreneurship, self-employment, occupational choice, occupational status, group status, peer group effects

Initial Capital Constraints Hinder Entrepreneurial Venture Performance: An empirical analysis,
Mirjam Praag, from CESifo (2003)
Keywords: entrepreneurship, small business founders, success, venture performance, wealth, capital, borrowing constraint

Business Survival and Success of Young Small Business Owners,
Mirjam Praag, from Tinbergen Institute (2003)
Keywords: self-employment; entrepreneurship; business survival; small business; and success.

Who values the Status of the Entrepreneur?,
Mirjam Praag, from Tinbergen Institute (2009)
Keywords: Entrepreneurship, self-employment, occupational choice, occupational status, group status, peer group effects

Who Values the Status of the Entrepreneur?,
Mirjam Praag, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2009)
Keywords: occupational status, occupational choice, self-employment, entrepreneurship, group status, peer group effects

The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z),
Mirjam Praag, Bernard M.S. van Praag and Bernard M.S. van Praag, from CESifo (2007)
Keywords: performance measurement, incentives, economists, name ordering

The higher returns to formal education for entrepreneurs versus employees,
Mirjam Praag, Arjen van Witteloostuijn and Justin van der Sluis, in Small Business Economics (2013)
Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Self-employment, Education, Locus of control, Human capital, Wages, Incomes, J23, J24, J31, J44, M13, L26,

Why Are the Returns to Education Higher for Entrepreneurs than for Employees?,
Justin van der Sluis, Mirjam Praag and Arjen van Witteloostuijn, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2007)
Keywords: entrepreneurship, self-employment, returns to education employment

Returns for Entrepreneurs versus Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vis-a-vis Wage Employees,
Mirjam Praag, Arjen van Witteloostuijn and Justin van der Sluis, from Tinbergen Institute (2009)
Keywords: entrepreneurship, self-employment, returns to education, performance, personal control, locus of control, human capital, wages, incomes

Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees,
Mirjam Praag, Arjen van Witteloostuijn and Justin van der Sluis, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2009)
Keywords: entrepreneurship, self-employment, returns to education, performance, personal control, locus of control, human capital, wages, incomes

Wage Structure and the Incentive Effects of Promotions,
Marco Van Herpen, Kees Cools and Mirjam Praag, in Kyklos (2006)

Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance: A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Education in Developing Economies,
Justin van der Sluis, Mirjam Praag and Wim Vijverberg, in The World Bank Economic Review (2005)

If You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You an Entrepreneur? Returns to Cognitive and Social Ability: Entrepreneurs Versus Employees,
Joop Hartog, Mirjam Praag and Justin Van Der Sluis, in Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (2010)

If you are so smart, why aren't you an entrepreneur? Returns to cognitive and social ability: Entrepreneurs versus employees,
Joop Hartog, Mirjam Praag and Justin van der Sluis, from Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (2008)
Keywords: (Non-)Cognitive abilities, intelligence, earnings, entrepreneur(ship), wage employment, income differentials

EDUCATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP SELECTION AND PERFORMANCE: A REVIEW OF THE EMPIRICAL LITERATURE,
Justin Van Der Sluis, Mirjam Praag and Wim Vijverberg, in Journal of Economic Surveys (2008)

Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance,
Justin van der Sluis, Mirjam Praag and Wim Vijverberg, from Tinbergen Institute (2004)
Keywords: Meta-analysis; schooling; education; entrepreneurship; self-employment; performance; occupational choice.

The Effects of Performance Measurement and Compensation on Motivation,
Marco van Herpen, Mirjam Praag and Kees Cools, from Tinbergen Institute (2003)
Keywords: Performance measurement; Compensation; Promotions; Intrinsic Motivation; Extrinsic Motivation.

Wage Structure and the Incentive Effect of Promotions,
Marco van Herpen, Kees Cools and Mirjam Praag, from Tinbergen Institute (2004)
Keywords: promotions; incentives; tournament model; internal labor market; extrinsic motivation; intrinsic motivation

If you are so smart, why aren't you an Entrepreneur?,
Joop Hartog, Mirjam Praag and Justin van der Sluis, from Tinbergen Institute (2008)
Keywords: (Non-)Cognitive abilities; intelligence; earnings; entrepreneur(ship); wage employment; income differentials

If You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You an Entrepreneur? Returns to Cognitive and Social Ability: Entrepreneurs versus Employees,
Joop Hartog, Mirjam Praag and Justin van der Sluis, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2008)
Keywords: entrepreneur(ship), earnings, intelligence, (non-)cognitive abilities, wage employment, income differentials

The returns to entrepreneurship: Evidence from matched person-firm data,
Mirjam Praag and Arvid Raknerud, from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2017)
Keywords: Returns to entrepreneurship; Earnings distribution; Matched person- firm data; Self-employment; Random effects probit model

How do entrepreneurial bosses influence their employees’ future entrepreneurship choices?,
Mirjam Praag and Vera Rocha, from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2016)
Keywords: entrepreneurship; Role models; Gender gaps; Female leadership

Illegal entrepreneurship experience: Does it make a difference for business performance and motivation?,
Ruta Aidis and Mirjam Praag, in Journal of Business Venturing (2007)

The entrepreneur’s mode of entry: Business takeover or new venture start?,
Simon Parker and Mirjam Praag, from Max Planck Institute of Economics, Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy Group (2006)

Mind the gap: The role of gender in entrepreneurial career choice and social influence by founders,
Vera Rocha and Mirjam Praag, in Strategic Management Journal (2020)

The Roots of Entrepreneurship and Labour Demand: Individual Ability and Low Risk Aversion,
Mirjam Praag and Jan Cramer, in Economica (2001)

Group Status and Entrepreneurship,
Simon Parker and Mirjam Praag, in Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (2010)

Performance measurement, expectancy and agency theory: An experimental study,
Randolph Sloof and Mirjam Praag, in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2008)

Testing for Distortions in Performance Measures: An Application to Residual Income‐Based Measures like Economic Value Added,
Randolph Sloof and Mirjam Praag, in Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (2015)

Schooling, Capital Constraints, and Entrepreneurial Performance: The Endogenous Triangle,
Simon Parker and Mirjam Praag, in Journal of Business & Economic Statistics (2006)

Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework,
Robin Douhan and Mirjam Praag, from Research Institute of Industrial Economics (2009)
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Ability; Occupational Choice; Human Capital; Wage Structure

What is the value of entrepreneurship? A review of recent research,
Mirjam Praag and Peter Versloot, in Small Business Economics (2007)
Keywords: Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Self-employment, Productivity, Economic development, Growth, Employment, Innovation, Patents, R&D, Utility, Remuneration, Income, D24, D31, E23, E24, J21, J28, J31, L26, M13,

Firm-Size Wage Differentials in the Netherlands,
Hessel Oosterbeek and Mirjam Praag, in Small Business Economics (1995)

The value relevance of top executive departures: Evidence from the Netherlands,
Kees Cools and Mirjam Praag, in Journal of Corporate Finance (2007)

The Entrepreneur's Mode of Entry: Business Takeover or New Venture Start,
Simon Parker and Mirjam Praag, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2006)
Keywords: human capital, business takeover, entrepreneurship, business entry, venture start-up

The Value Relevance of Top Executive Departures: Evidence from the Netherlands,
Kees Cools and Mirjam Praag, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2007)
Keywords: corporate governance, dismissal, top management departure, internal monitoring, value relevance

Performance Measurement, Expectancy and Agency Theory: An Experimental Study,
Randolph Sloof and Mirjam Praag, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2007)
Keywords: performance measurement, expectancy theory, real effort experiments, agency theory, personnel economics

The entrepreneurial earnings puzzle. Evidence from matched person-firm data,
Arvid Raknerud and Mirjam Praag, from Statistics Norway, Research Department (2014)
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Returns to entrepreneurship; Earnings distribution; Matched personfirm data

Illegal Entrepreneurship Experience,
Ruta Aidis and Mirjam Praag, from Tinbergen Institute (2004)
Keywords: entrepreneurship; human capital; illegal entrepreneurship; transition economy

Schooling, Capital Constraints and Entrepreneurial Performance,
Simon Parker and Mirjam Praag, from Tinbergen Institute (2005)
Keywords: entrepreneurship; self-employment; returns to education; capital constraint; liquidity constraint; borrowing constraint

Performance Measurement, Expectancy and Agency Theory: An Experimental Study,
Randolph Sloof and Mirjam Praag, from Tinbergen Institute (2007)
Keywords: Expectancy theory; agency theory; performance measurement; experiments

The Entrepreneur's Mode of Entry: Business Takeover or New Venture Start?,
Simon Parker and Mirjam Praag, from Tinbergen Institute (2006)
Keywords: entrepreneurship; human capital; business takeover; venture start up; family firm

The Degradation of Distorted Performance Measures,
Randolph Sloof and Mirjam Praag, from Tinbergen Institute (2008)
Keywords: Residual income; EVA; degradation; distortion; performance measurement; management compensation; incentive compensation

The Effect of Noise in a Performance Measure on Work Motivation,
Randolph Sloof and Mirjam Praag, from Tinbergen Institute (2008)
Keywords: Performance measurement; noise; work motivation; experiments; agency theory; expectancy theory

Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework,
Robin Douhan and Mirjam Praag, from Tinbergen Institute (2009)
Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Ability, Occupational Choice, Human Capital, Wage Structure

Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment,
Sander Hoogendoorn and Mirjam Praag, from Tinbergen Institute (2014)
Keywords: Ethnic diversity, team performance, field experiment, entrepreneurship, (mutual) learning

Testing for Distortions in Performance Measures: An Application to Residual Income Based Measures like Economic Value Added,
Randolph Sloof and Mirjam Praag, from Tinbergen Institute (2014)
Keywords: Residual Income, Economic Value Added, distortion, performance measurement, incentive compensation

How do Entrepreneurial Bosses influence their Employees' Future Entrepreneurship Choices?,
Vera Rocha and Mirjam Praag, from Tinbergen Institute (2016)
Keywords: Entrepreneurship, role models, gender gaps, female leadership

The Returns to Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Matched Person-firm Data,
Mirjam Praag and Arvid Raknerud, from Tinbergen Institute (2017)
Keywords: Returns to entrepreneurship, Earnings distribution, Matched person-firm data, Self-employment, Random effects probit model

Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework,
Robin Douhan and Mirjam Praag, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2009)
Keywords: entrepreneurship, ability, occupational choice, human capital, wage structure

The "Entrepreneurial Boss" Effect on Employees' Future Entrepreneurship Choices: A Role Model Story?,
Vera Rocha and Mirjam Praag, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2016)
Keywords: entrepreneurship, role models, gender gaps, female leadership

The Returns to Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Matched Person-Firm Data,
Mirjam Praag and Arvid Raknerud, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2017)
Keywords: returns to entrepreneurship, earnings distribution, matched person-firm data, self-employment, random effects probit model

The value of an educated population for an individual's entrepreneurship success,
André van Stel, Mirjam Praag, Jose Maria Millan, Emilio Congregado and Concepción Román, from EIM Business and Policy Research (2013)

The Value of an Educated Population for an Individual's Entrepreneurship Success,
Jose Maria Millan, Emilio Congregado, Concepción Román, Mirjam Praag and André van Stel, from Tinbergen Institute (2014)
Keywords: entrepreneurship, performance, survival, personnel, education

Diverse cognitive skills and team performance: A field experiment based on an entrepreneurship education program,
Laura Rosendahl Huber, Randolph Sloof, Mirjam Praag and Simon C. Parker, in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2020)
Keywords: Skill balance; Entrepreneurship; Team performance; Team diversity; Field experiment;

The perception of welfare inequality: A correcting note,
Paul C. Van Batenburg and Bernard van Praag, in European Economic Review (1980)

Entrepreneurship and Financial Incentives of Return, Risk, and Skew,
Peter Berkhout, Joop Hartog and Mirjam Praag, in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (2016)

The Economic Benefits and Costs of Entrepreneurship: A Review of the Research,
Mirjam Praag and Peter H. Versloot, in Foundations and Trends(R) in Entrepreneurship (2007)
Keywords: Employment generation, Entrepreneurship, Productivity and growth,

How Do Investors Evaluate Past Entrepreneurial Failure? Unpacking Failure Due to Lack of Skill versus Bad Luck,
Diego Zunino, Gary Dushnitsky and Mirjam Praag, from HAL (2022)

The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship skills and motivation,
Hessel Oosterbeek, Mirjam Praag and Auke Ijsselstein, in European Economic Review (2010)
Keywords: Entrepreneurship education Program evaluation Entrepreneur competencies and skills Entrepreneur intentions and motivation

Badge of Honor or Scarlet Letter? Unpacking Investors’ Judgment of Entrepreneurs’ Past Failure,
Mirjam Praag, Diego Zunino and Gary Dushnitsky, from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2017)
Keywords: Entrepreneur; Venture; Failure; Luck; Skill; Investors; Crowdfunding; Experiment

The Impact of Gender Diversity on the Performance of Business Teams: Evidence from a Field Experiment,
Sander Hoogendoorn, Hessel Oosterbeek and Mirjam Praag, in Management Science (2013)
Keywords: gender diversity, team performance, field experiment, entrepreneurship education, board effectiveness

Risk, balanced skills and entrepreneurship,
Chihmao Hsieh, Simon Parker and Mirjam Praag, in Small Business Economics (2017)
Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Jack-of-all-trades, Risk, Human capital, Occupational choice, Balanced skills

Entrepreneurs: intuitive or contemplative decision-makers?,
Martin Koudstaal, Randolph Sloof and Mirjam Praag, in Small Business Economics (2019)
Keywords: Entrepreneurs, Contemplativeness, Response times, Faith in Intuition, Need for Cognition, Lab-in-the-field experiment

The Effects of Performance Measurement and Compensation on Motivation: An Empirical Study,
Marco Herpen, Mirjam Praag and Kees Cools, in De Economist (2005)
Keywords: compensation, extrinsic motivation, intrinsic motivation, promotions, performance measurement, J41, J33,

The Origins and Extent of Entrepreneurial Action-Orientedness: An Experimental Study,
Mirjam Praag, Randolph Sloof and Ahmad Barirani, from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2017)
Keywords: Managers; Employees; Inaction; Curiosity; Loss aversion; Lab-in-the field experiment; Entrepreneurs

Risk, Uncertainty, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment,
Martin Koudstaal, Randolph Sloof and Mirjam Praag, in Management Science (2016)
Keywords: entrepreneurs, managers, risk aversion, loss aversion, ambiguity aversion, lab-in-the field experiment

Why Do Entrepreneurial Parents Have Entrepreneurial Children?,
Matthew Lindquist, Joeri Sol and Mirjam Praag, in Journal of Labor Economics (2015)

What is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research,
Mirjam Praag and Peter H. Versloot, from Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (2007)
Keywords: entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, self-employment, productivity, economic development, growth, employment, innovation, patents, R+D, utility, remuneration, income.

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, from Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (2008)
Keywords: Entrepreneurship education, program evaluation, entrepreneur competencies, entrepreneur intentions

Women in a men’s world: Risk taking in an online card game community,
Eszter Czibor, Jörg Claussen and Mirjam Praag, in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2019)
Keywords: Gender; Risk preferences; Experience; Selection; Natural experiment;

What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research,
Mirjam Praag and Peter H. Versloot, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2007)
Keywords: remuneration, utility, R&D, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, self-employment, productivity, economic development, growth, employment, innovation, patents, income

Deviating from the benchmarks: Human capital inputs and the survival of new startups,
Vera Rocha, Mirjam Praag and Anabela Carneiro, from Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Economia do Porto (2015)
Keywords: Keywords: human resources, human capital, startup conditions, new ventures, firm survival, entrepreneurs, intra-industry dynamics

What is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research,
Mirjam Praag and Peter H. Versloot, from Tinbergen Institute (2007)
Keywords: entrepreneur; entrepreneurship; self-employment; productivity; economic development; growth; employment; innovation; patents; R&D; research; development; utility; remuneration; income

The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions,
Hessel Oosterbeek, Mirjam Praag and Auke IJsselstein, from Tinbergen Institute (2008)
Keywords: Entrepreneurship education; program evaluation; entrepreneur competencies; entrepreneur intentions

The Impact of Gender Diversity on the Performance of Business Teams: Evidence from a Field Experiment,
Sander Hoogendoorn, Hessel Oosterbeek and Mirjam Praag, from Tinbergen Institute (2014)
Keywords: Gender diversity, team performance, entrepreneurship, field experiment, entrepreneurship education, board effectiveness

It's the Opportunity Cost, stupid! How Self-Employment responds to Financial Incentives of Return, Risk and Skew,
Peter Berkhout, Joop Hartog and Mirjam Praag, from Tinbergen Institute (2011)
Keywords: entrepreneurship, self-employment, wage-employment, income distribution, income risk, income skew, income variance, occupational choice, labor market entry, labor market segments, opportunity cost

Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship,
Chihmao Hsieh, Simon Parker and Mirjam Praag, from Tinbergen Institute (2011)
Keywords: entrepreneurship; jack-of-all-trades; risk; human capital; occupational choice

Why do Entrepreneurial Parents have Entrepreneurial Children?,
Matthew Lindquist, Joeri Sol and Mirjam Praag, from Tinbergen Institute (2014)
Keywords: adoption, entrepreneurship, self-employment, intergenerational mobility, occupational choice, role model

Ability Dispersion and Team Performance: A Field Experiment,
Sander Hoogendoorn, Simon Parker and Mirjam Praag, from Tinbergen Institute (2012)
Keywords: Ability dispersion, team performance, field experiment, entrepreneurship, knowledge pooling, moral hazard

Ability Dispersion and Team Performance,
Sander Hoogendoorn, Simon Parker and Mirjam Praag, from Tinbergen Institute (2014)
Keywords: Ability dispersion, team performance, field experiment, entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial Couples,
Michael Dahl, Mirjam Praag and Peter Thompson, from Tinbergen Institute (2014)
Keywords: Entrepreneurship, motives, performance, couples, co-entrepreneurship.

Are Entrepreneurs more Optimistic and Overconfident than Managers and Employees?,
Martin Koudstaal, Randolph Sloof and Mirjam Praag, from Tinbergen Institute (2015)
Keywords: Entrepreneurs, managers, dispositional optimism, attributional style, overestimation, overconfidence, behavioral economics

The Origins and Extent of Entrepreneurial Action-Orientedness: An Experimental Study,
Ahmad Barirani, Randolph Sloof and Mirjam Praag, from Tinbergen Institute (2017)
Keywords: Entrepreneurs, Managers, Employees, Inaction, Curiosity, Loss aversion, Lab-in-the field experiment.

Badge of Honor or Scarlet Letter? Unpacking Investors' Judgment of Entrepreneurs' Past Failure,
Diego Zunino, Mirjam Praag and Gary Dushnitsky, from Tinbergen Institute (2017)
Keywords: entrepreneur, venture, failure, luck, skill, investors, crowdfunding, experiment