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Self-regulation training, labor market reintegration of unemployed individuals, and Locus of Control evidence from a natural field experiment
Berger, Eva M.; Koenig, Guenther; Mueller, Henning; … - 2016
Recent evidence suggests that self-regulation plays an important role for labor market success. We conducted a randomized natural field experiment embedded in an existing labor market reactivation program to examine the effect of a self-regulation training on long-term unemployed individuals....
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Are children's socio-emotional skills shaped by parental health shocks?
García-Miralles, Esteban; Gensowski, Miriam - 2022
Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their children's skills. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child socio-emotional skills. Drawing on a large-scale survey linked to hospital records, we...
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Let bygones be bygones? : socialist regimes and personalities in Germany
Friehe, Tim; Pannenberg, Markus; Wedow, Michael - 2015
This paper investigates the influence of political regimes on personality, using the separation of Germany into the … differences between former GDR and FRG residents regarding important attributes of personality (particularly the locus of control …, neuroticism, conscientiousness, and openness). To understand the inuence of the GDR's socialist regime on personality, we test an …
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Are risk aversion and impatience related to cognitive ability?
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2009
This paper investigates whether risk aversion and impatience are correlated with cognitive ability. We conduct incentive compatible choice experiments measuring risk aversion, and impatience over an annual time horizon, for a representative sample of roughly 1,000 German adults. A measure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003833308
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Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2021
This paper investigates whether risk aversion and impatience are correlated with cognitive ability. We conduct incentive compatible choice experiments measuring risk aversion, and impatience over an annual time horizon, for a representative sample of roughly 1,000 German adults. A measure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316382
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Central school exit exams and labor-market outcomes
Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2012
Many countries use centralized exit exams as a governance devise of the school system. While abundant evidence suggests positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on university-bound students shows no effects on subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market...
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The information value of central school exams
Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
The central vs. local nature of high-school exit exam systems can have important repercussions on the labor market. By increasing the informational content of grades, central exams may improve the sorting of students by productivity. To test this, we exploit the unique German setting where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283839
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Individualism, human capital formation, and labor market success
Hartinger, Katharina; Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; … - 2021
There is an ongoing debate about the economic effects of individualism. We establish that individualism leads to better educational and labor market outcomes. Using data from the largest international adult skill assessment, we identify the effects of individualism by exploiting variation...
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Central School Exit Exams and Labor-Market Outcomes
Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
Many countries use centralized exit exams as a governance devise of the school system. While abundant evidence suggests positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on university-bound students shows no effects on subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315856
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Choking under pressure : evidence of the causal effect of audience size on performance
Böheim, René; Grübl, Dominik; Lackner, Mario - 2018
We analyze performance under pressure and estimate the causal effect of audience size on the success of free throws in top-level professional basketball. We use data from the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the seasons 2007/08 through 2015/16. We exploit the exogenous variation in...
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