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Cognitive Ability, Character Skills, and Learning to Play Equilibrium: A Level-k Analysis

Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable …

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Hard Evidence on Soft Skills

Heckman, James J.; Kautz, Tim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper summarizes recent evidence on what achievement tests measure; how achievement tests relate to other measures of "cognitive ability" like IQ and grades; the important skills that achievement tests miss or mismeasure, and how much these skills matter in life. Achievement tests miss, or...

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Economic Conditions at the Time of Birth and Cognitive Abilities Late in Life: Evidence from Eleven European Countries

Doblhammer, Gabriele; den Berg, Gerard J. van; Fritze, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

changes in the early life economic environment on late life cognition. In European countries, about three to four economic …

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Cognition and Economic Outcomes in the Health and Retirement Survey

McArdle, John J.; Smith, James P.; Willis, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Dimensions of cognitive skills are potentially important but often neglected determinants of the central economic outcomes that shape overall well-being over the life course. There exists enormous variation among households in their rates of wealth accumulation, their holdings of financial...

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Gender Differences in Cognition in China and Reasons for Change over Time: Evidence from CHARLS

Lei, Xiaoyan; Smith, James P.; Sun, Xiaoting; Zhao, Yaohui - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

and are nationally representative of the Chinese population in this age span. Our measures of cognition in CHARLS relies … on two measures that proxy for different dimensions of adult cognition – episodic memory and intact mental status. We … people. These gender differences in cognition are especially concentrated in the older age groups and poorer communities …

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Other-Regarding Preferences and Leadership Styles

Kocher, Martin G.; Pogrebna, Ganna; Sutter, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We use a laboratory experiment to examine whether and to what extent other-regarding preferences of team leaders influence their leadership style in choice under risk. We find that leaders who prefer efficiency or report high levels of selfishness are more likely to exercise an autocratic...

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