Research Article
Entrepreneurship, Education and Youth Employment in Africa: Reframing Higher Education
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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-72965-7_13, author={Pazisnewende Kabore}, title={Entrepreneurship, Education and Youth Employment in Africa: Reframing Higher Education}, proceedings={Innovation and Interdisciplinary Solutions for Underserved Areas. First International Conference, InterSol 2017 and Sixth Collogue National sur la Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications, CNRIA 2017, Dakar, Senegal, April 11--12, 2017, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={INTERSOL \& CNRIA}, year={2018}, month={2}, keywords={Entrepreneurship Education Innovation Youth employment Africa}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-72965-7_13} }- Pazisnewende Kabore
Year: 2018
Entrepreneurship, Education and Youth Employment in Africa: Reframing Higher Education
INTERSOL & CNRIA
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-72965-7_13
Abstract
Given the high rate of unemployment in most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa policy makers innovate by fostering job creation and self employment through entrepreneurship education. We build on the Theory of Planned Behavior developed by Ajzen (1991) and use Probit regression to investigate the marginal impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intent using survey data gathered in Côte d’Ivoire in 2015. We find that an ecosystem of entrepreneurship increases entrepreneurial intent by 50% while an entrepreneurship awareness course does not have any statistically significant impact. This result suggests reframing higher education in order to favor the entry into the private sector by the youth.
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