The authors adopt the Five-Factor Model of personality structure to explore how personalityaffected the earnings of a … significant positiveor negative earnings effects, and together they appear to have had effects comparable to those commonlyfound … for cognitive ability. Among men, substantial earnings advantages were associatedwith antagonism (the obverse of …

, conditional on first round scores, losers go for a more challenging target but perform worse, leading to lower earnings and a …

questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an entrepreneur's earnings relative to employees? (2 …) Do different cognitive abilities (e.g. math ability, language ability) and social ability affect earnings of … entrepreneurs and employees differently?, and (3) Does the balance in these measured ability levels affect an individual's earnings …

differential social standing in adolescence predicts large and persistent earnings disparities over the entire life course. The … share of the earnings inequalities is mediated by differential post-secondary human and social capital investment. From a …

In this paper, we use quantile regression decomposition methods to analyzethe gender gap between men and women who work … selection is a serious issue. In addition to shedding light onthe sources of the gender gap in the Netherlands, we make two …

manipulated the gender composition of teams and assigned students randomly to teams, conditional on their gender. We find that … teams with an equal gender mix perform better than male-dominated teams in terms of sales and profits. We explore various … mechanisms suggested in the literature to explain this positive effect of gender diversity on performance (including …

contraceptives to determine the importance of sex hormones in explaining gender differences in competitiveness. Participants in a … of progesterone on competitiveness and our results therefore provide a partial biological explanation for gender …