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Bouncing Back from Health Shocks: Locus of Control, Labor Supply, and Mortality

Schurer, Stefanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Policy-makers worldwide are embarking on school programmes aimed at boosting students' resilience. One facet of resilience is a belief about cause and effect in life, locus of control. I test whether positive control beliefs work as a psychological buffer against health shocks in adulthood. To...

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The Effect of Personality Traits on Subject Choice and Performance in High School: Evidence from an English Cohort

Mendolia, Silvia; Walker, Ian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and performance in high school using a large and recent cohort study. In particular, we investigate the impact of locus of control, self-esteem and work ethics at age 15, on test scores at age 16, and on subject...

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Locus of Control and Its Intergenerational Implications for Early Childhood Skill Formation

Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Cornaglia, Francesca; Powdthavee, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

formation of their children. This subjective belief is determined in part by locus of control (LOC), i.e., the extent to which … individuals believe that their actions can influence future outcomes. Consistent with the theory, we show that maternal LOC … utilize the variation in maternal LOC to help improve the specification typically used in the estimation of skill production …

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The Effect of Non-Cognitive Traits on Health Behaviours in Adolescence

Mendolia, Silvia; Walker, Ian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and health behaviours using a large and recent cohort study. In particular, we investigate the impact of locus of control, self-esteem and conscientiousness at age 15-16, on the incidence of health behaviours such...

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The Relationship Between Economic Preferences and Psychological Personality Measures

Becker, Anke; Deckers, Thomas; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Although both economists and psychologists seek to identify determinants of heterogeneity in behavior, they use different concepts to capture them. In this review we first analyze the extent to which economic preferences and psychological concepts of personality – such as the Big Five and...

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Search, Effort, and Locus of Control

McGee, Andrew; McGee, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We test the hypothesis that locus of control – one's perception of control over events in life – influences search by affecting beliefs about the efficacy of search effort in a laboratory experiment. We find that reservation offers and effort are increasing in the belief that one's efforts...

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Jailer of Freedom and Enemy of Growth? The Role of Personal and Social Identities in Educational Choices

Autiero, Giuseppina; O'Higgins, Niall - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper develops a theoretical and empirical model on the influence of identity on educational choices which extends the existing literature in several directions. The theoretical model proposed here allows schooling choices to be independently influenced by both personal and social...

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Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees

van Praag, Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van der … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples' occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that education...

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Do People Become Healthier after Being Promoted?

Boyce, Christopher J.; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper uses longitudinal data to explore whether greater job status makes a person healthier. Taking the evidence as a whole, promotees do not exhibit a health improvement after promotion. Instead the data suggest that workers with good health are more likely to be promoted. In the private...

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The Impact of Education on Personality: Evidence from a German High School Reform

Dahmann, Sarah; Anger, Silke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students' personality traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine...

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