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The Relationship between Economic Preferences and Psychological Personality Measures

Becker, Anke - 2012

experiments and representative samples and find only low degrees of association between economic preferences and personality. We … 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 locus of control - are related. We analyze data from incentivized laboratory …

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Estimating the Influence of Life Satisfaction and Positive Affect on Later Income Using Sibling Fixed-Effects

De Neve, Jan‐Emmanuel - 2012

The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue across the social, psychological, and behavioral sciences. Much research has found that richer people tend to be happier. However, relatively little attention has been paid to...

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The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior

Friehe, Tim - 2014

criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and … locus of control), and a self-control scale from criminology. We find that economic preferences, personality traits, and …

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Frustration and Anger in Games

Battigalli, Pierpaolo - 2015

Frustration, anger, and aggression have important consequences for economic and social behavior, concerning for example monopoly pricing, contracting, bargaining, traffic safety, violence, and politics. Drawing on insights from psychology, we develop a formal approach to exploring how...

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Homo Moralis : Personal Characteristics, Institutions, and Moral Decision-Making

Deckers, Thomas - 2016

This paper studies how individual characteristics, institutions, and their interaction influence moral decisions. We validate a moral paradigm focusing on the willingness to accept harming third parties. Consequences of moral decisions are real. We explore how moral behavior varies with...

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Determinants of Trust : the Role of Personal Experiences

Schwerter, Frederik; Zimmermann, Florian - 2021

Social interactions pervade daily life and thereby create an abundance of social experiences. Such personal experiences likely shape what we believe and who we are. In this paper, we ask if and how personal experiences from social interactions determine individuals’ inclination to trust...

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Strong, Bold, and Kind : Self-Control and Cooperation in Social Dilemmas

Kocher, Martin G.; Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian … - 2021

We develop a model that relates self-control and conflict identification to cooperation patterns in social dilemmas. As predicted, we find in a laboratory public goods experiment a robust association between stronger self-control and higher levels of cooperation. This means that there is...

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Qualifying Religion : The Role of Plural Identities for Educational Production

Boppart, Timo; Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker; … - 2021

This paper examines the role of religious denomination for human capital formation. We employ a unique data set which covers, inter alia, information on numerous measures of school inputs in 169 Swiss districts for the years 1871/72, 1881/82 and 1894/95, marks from pedagogical examinations of...

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Economic Gains for U.S. States from Educational Reform

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2016

There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that...

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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. - 2017

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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