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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886141
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279310
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283586
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969335
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744662
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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884080
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Monitoring Costs, Credit Constraints and Entrepreneurship
Banerji, Sanjay; Raj, Rajesh S.N.; Sen, Kunal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552946
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Intrapreneurship or Entrepreneurship?
Parker, Simon C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
employer ('nascent intrapreneurship') or independently ('nascent entrepreneurship'). Analysis of a nationally representative … and nascent intrapreneurship. Nascent entrepreneurs tend to leverage their general human capital and social ties to … sample of American adults gathered in 2005-06 uncovers systematic differences between the drivers of nascent entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999165
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Integrating Personality Psychology into Economics
Heckman, James J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper reviews the problems and potential benefits of integrating personality psychology into economics. Economists have much to learn from and contribute to personality psychology.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278194
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Risk, Uncertainty and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment
Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is … mixed. To better understand the unique behavioral characteristics of entrepreneurs and the causes of these mixed results, we … perform a large 'lab-in-the-field' experiment comparing entrepreneurs to managers – a suitable comparison group – and …
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