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Table 1 Entrepreneurship and balanced skills across time

From: Once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur? The impacts of skills developed before, during and after college on firm start-ups

Cohort

AC_SPEC by entrepreneurs

AC_SPEC by non-entrepreneurs

Difference

t-value of difference

1982-1986

12.4 [0.49]

12.6 [0.29]

0.20

0.35

1987-1991

12.3 [0.53]

12.2 [0.29]

−0.09

−0.14

1992-1996

13.0 [0.60]

13.1 [0.31]

0.10

0.15

1997-2001

13.2 [0.61]

13.2 [0.27]

0.04

0.05

2002-2006

12.2 [0.67]

14.2 [0.25]

1.94***

2.70

  1. Note: Number in the bracket is standard error of mean estimates. Variable AC_SPEC is defined as number of courses in the major minus the average number of courses taken in other departments. *, ** and ***represent statistic significance at 10%, 5% and 1%, respectively.