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The Importance of Early Conscientiousness for Socio-Economic Outcomes: Evidence from the British Cohort Study

Prevoo, Tyas; ter Weel, Bas - 2013

This research estimates models of the importance of conscientiousness for socio-economic outcomes. We use measures of conscientiousness at age 16 to explain adult wages and other outcomes, such as crime, health and savings behaviour. We use several waves from the 1970 British Cohort Study. Our...

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The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits

Borghans, Lex; Duckworth, Angela Lee; Heckman, James J.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper explores the interface between personality psychology and economics. We examine the predictive power of personality and the stability of personality traits over the life cycle. We develop simple analytical frameworks for interpreting the evidence in personality psychology and suggest...

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The Importance of Early Conscientiousness for Socio-Economic Outcomes: Evidence from the British Cohort Study

Prevoo, Tyas; ter Weel, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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Social capital, innovation and growth: evidence from Europe

Akçomak, I. Semih; ter Weel, Bas - 2008

This paper investigates the interplay between social capital, innovation and per capita income growth in the European … Union. We model and identify innovation as an important mechanism that transforms social capital into higher income levels …. In an empirical investigation of 102 European regions in the period 1990-2002, we show that higher innovation performance …

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Social Capital, Innovation and Growth: Evidence from Europe

Akçomak, I. Semih; ter Weel, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

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