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Entrepreneurship education (EE) is a crucial link to promoting college students’ entrepreneurship, which reduces unemployment, economic development, and poverty. Based on a sample of Chinese college students, this study uses a logistic model to investigate the effect of EE on entrepreneurial intention (EI). It focuses on evaluating the impact of EE on the EI of different groups of college students from the perspectives of gender, household registration, school type, and poverty status. Benchmark regression results show that EE has a significant positive impact on the EI of students. The heterogeneity analysis has the following findings. First, EE has a more significant impact on women’s EI, which can reduce the entrepreneurial gap between women and men. Second, EE is more effective in improving the EI of urban students, which will further widen the gap between urban and rural students in entrepreneurship. Third, EE has increased the EI of students from private universities, which represent application-oriented universities. This shows that public universities, which represent research-oriented universities, need to increase the training of talent in practical applications to narrow the gap with private universities in entrepreneurship. Fourth, after receiving EE, the EI of nonpoor students improved more than that of poor students. Equal EE increases the gap between poor and nonpoor students, which can easily lead to an intergenerational cycle of poverty in entrepreneurship. This study provides empirical evidence from college students’ entrepreneurship in relatively underdeveloped western China, which supports the development of EE and entrepreneurial activities.

创业教育（EE）是促进大学生创业精神的关键纽带，有助于降低失业率、推动经济发展和缓解贫困。本研究基于中国大学生的样本，采用逻辑模型探究EE对创业意向（EI）的影响。研究聚焦于从性别、户籍、学校类型和贫困状况等视角评估EE对不同群体大学生EI的影响。基准回归结果显示，EE对学生的EI具有显著的积极影响。异质性分析得出以下结论：首先，EE对女性EI的影响更为显著，有助于缩小男女创业差距。其次，EE在提升城市学生EI方面更为有效，将进一步扩大城乡学生在创业方面的差距。第三，EE提升了来自私立大学学生的EI，而私立大学代表应用型大学。这表明代表研究型大学的公立大学需要加强实践应用人才的培养，以缩小与私立大学在创业方面的差距。第四，接受EE后，非贫困学生的EI提升幅度大于贫困学生。平等的EE会扩大贫困与非贫困学生之间的差距，极易导致创业领域的代际贫困循环。本研究从相对欠发达的西部地区大学生的创业实践出发，提供了实证证据，支持创业教育及创业活动的发展。