Neurophysiological markers of emotion regulation predict efficacy of entrepreneurship education.

ABSTRACT: Recent evidence shows that programs targeting the socio-emotional dimensions of entrepreneurship-e.g., resilience, personal initiative, and empathy-are more highly correlated with success along with key business metrics, such as sales and survival, than programs with a narrow, technical bent-e.g., accounting and finance. We argue that programs designed to foster socio-emotional skills are effective in improving entrepreneurship outcomes because they improve the students' ability to regulate their emotions. They enhance the individuals' disposition to make more measured, rational decisions. We test this hypothesis studying a randomized controlled trial (RCT, RCT ID: AEARCTR-0000916) of an entrepreneurship program in Chile. We combine administrative data, surveys, and neuro-psychological dat

SUBMITTER: Egana-delSol P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10156692 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature