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Few studies have examined how students' entrepreneurial inclinations are influenced by entrepreneurship education. These studies' contentious findings drew academics' interest and prompted additional inquiry. This paper investigates the moderating impact of entrepreneurship education on attitude, subjective norms, and self- efficacy-based determinants of entrepreneurial desires and aspirations. Entrepreneurial education is taken as a moderating variable for the study. True experimental design is chosen to analyze the respective relationship between some independent variables and a single dependent variable, such as EINT. From various higher education institutions in India, data were gathered from two groups, those who finished an entrepreneurship course (treatment group) and those who did not have the entrepreneurship course (control group). The period of the study is from 2020-2022. Out of the 500 respondents, 324 completed questionnaires were received, and 307 qualified as valid answers. Structural equation modeling was used to test the hypothesis. Using the partial least squares method, the statistical relationship between the modeled variables was estimated. The study found that the most important predictors of EINT are attitude, self-efficacy, and subjective norms. SEM showed that the association of entrepreneurial attitude and self-efficacy with entrepreneurial intentions was found to be moderated by entrepreneurship education. However, EE weakened the influence of subjective norms on professional objectives and intentions to start their own business. Education influences strong intentions to be an entrepreneur successfully. This study is limited based on the information available in Delhi and NCR when the research was carried out. The result might be affected when taken from different regions or states. This research is essential to policymakers because India has cultural barriers, a lack of entrepreneurship education, and very few support programs that prevent new firms from beginning. They should encourage entrepreneurship, R&D, and technology. Robust, inclusive measurements could aid researchers and practitioners. Financial educators help youth manage their financial issues and succeed in this sector. Behavior management requires financial researchers to understand behavior formation and change, which applies the implications of the true experimental design of the study. The study contributes empirically and theoretically by focusing on an area of research that has received less attention, especially in the context of the environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
