Detecting Hidden Sorting and Alignment Effects of Entrepreneurship Education
利用准实验设计中的学生前后调查，揭示了创业教育中隐藏的分类效应和对齐效应，解释了为何平均效应常被低估或为负，对改进创业课程评估方法有参考价值。
Recently, scholars are confronted with only small positive, non-existing, or even negative average effects of entrepreneurship education. We draw on two largely neglected and hidden effects of entrepreneurship education, namely the alignment and the sorting effect, in order to explain previous inconsistent evaluation outcomes. Making use of ex ante and ex post student-surveys in a quasi-experimental setting, we provide insights into how these effects emerge and are further amplified by course-induced updates in personal attitudes and perceived behavioral control. Our study shows that relying on average measures is often not effective in evaluating entrepreneurship courses and highlights the need for new outcomes measures.