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 …

Growing interest in using personality variables in economic research leads to the question whether personality as … measured by psychology is useful to predict economic behavior. Is it reasonable to expect values on personality scales to be … predictive of behavior in economic games? It is undoubted that personality can influence large-scale economic outcomes. Whether …

efficiency advantage is solely driven by intelligence. We operationalize efficiency of health investment as the probability of …) healthy, (ii) ill (in hospital), and (iii) death. We use data from a Dutch cohort born around 1940 that links intelligence … tests at age 12 to later-life hospitalization and mortality records. The results suggest that higher Intelligence induces …

of an organization. We argue that to further our understanding it should be understood in terms of human cognition of a …

variance of earnings of individual households. Specifications estimated are standard and quadratic ARCH and GARCH processes … impact on aggregate consumption growth implying that earnings uncertainty and precautionary saving motives matter for the … aggregate economy. The estimation of a buffer stock model of consumption with time-varying earnings uncertainty provides an …

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 …