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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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Aging and Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition: An Artefactual Field Experiment in a Swiss Bank

Madies, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire; Wasmer, Malgorzata - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a market entry game inspired by Camerer and Lovallo (1999). Seniors exhibit higher entry rates compared to juniors, especially when earnings depend on relative performance. This...

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Do Women Prefer a Co-operative Work Environment?

Kuhn, Peter J.; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less pessimistic about …

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Fading Hope in the US

Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

A substantial literature claims that the strong increase in inequality over the last decade in countries such as the US would lead to a collapse of society. Fading hopes in the population seem to confirm this. The paper rejects this interpretation since the decline in hopes cannot be traced back...

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Education, Redistributive Taxation and Confidence

Konrad, Kai A.; Spadaro, Amedeo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We consider redistributional taxation between people with and without human capital if education is endogenous and if individuals differ in their perceptions about own ability. Those who see their ability as low like redistributive taxation because of the transfers it generates. Those who see...

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Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial … sector. Finally, analysis of several repeated cross-sections of confidence within U.S. states yields similar qualitative …

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