Arbeitspapier

TV and entrepreneurship

Can TV influence the entrepreneurial decisions of individuals? To identify causal effects, we utilize a quasi-natural experiment, namely that during the division of Germany after WWI into the capitalistic West Germany and the socialistic East Germany, West TV was exogenously available only in some regions of the latter. Using regional and individual data, we show that, after the Reunification, entrepreneurship is higher among the residents of East German regions with West TV signal, indicating a direct effect of TV on the entrepreneurial mindset of exposed individuals. Moreover, we find second-order effects due to intergenerational transmission, which cause persistent differences.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Jena Economic Research Papers ; No. 2017-007

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Entrepreneurship
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
New Firms; Startups
Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: General
Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: General
Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights: General
Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
Cultural Economics; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology: General
Thema
entrepreneurship
culture
occupational choice
institutions

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Slavtchev, Viktor
Wyrwich, Michael
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
(wo)
Jena
(wann)
2017

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Slavtchev, Viktor
  • Wyrwich, Michael
  • Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Entstanden

  • 2017

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