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full (marginal) costs of an action on the parties. However, institutional restrictions or bilateral activity choices can …
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equilibrium levels of safety and activity from the product's usage under no liability, strict liability, and negligence rule. We …
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-consistent personality and environment. We explain when stressors reduce income. We also explain under which conditions rising income does …
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number of life events on the Big Five personality traits and locus of control. A subset of life events have large impacts on … then demonstrate that treating personality traits as fixed can lead to biased estimates of their relationship with …
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I study how motivation shapes own and peers' educational success. Using data from Project STAR, I find that academic motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test scores, high school GPA, and college-test taking...
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Many modern organisations collect data on individuals' personality traits as part of their human resource selection … processes. We test experimentally whether revealing information on personality data impacts on pro-social behaviour as measured … in a one-shot modified dictator game and a public goods game. Our focus is on the personality trait of agreeableness …
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entrepreneurship literature has emphasised the important role of personality traits as predictors for start-up decisions and business … administrative-survey data allows us to incorporate usually unobserved personality measures in the evaluation and investigate their … that concerns about potential overestimation of programme effects in absence of personality measures might be less …
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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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and average personality traits. …
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correlations with a Big Five personality measure and is correlated with actual risk-taking behaviour. The results suggest that the …
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