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Are personality traits really fixed and does it matter?

Stillman, Steven; Velamuri, Malathi - 2020

A nascent but burgeoning literature examines the importance of non-cognitive skills in determining success across many facets of life. The majority of these papers treat these skills as fixed traits for adults. We estimate the impact of a number of life events on the Big Five personality traits...

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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 … with greater risk aversion, and more pronounced impatience. These relationships are statistically and economically …

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Sports and child development

Felfe, Christina; Lechner, Michael; Steinmayr, Andreas - 2011 - This draft: October 2011

Despite the relevance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills for professional success, their formation is not yet fully understood. This study fills part of this gap by analyzing the effect of sports club participation, one of the most popular extra-curricular activities, on children's skill...

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Taxing childcare : effects on family labor supply and children

Gathmann, Christina; Saß, Björn - 2012 - This version: March, 2012

supply ; cognitive skills ; family policy ; Germany …

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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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The impact of working memory training on children’s cognitive and noncognitive skills

Berger, Eva M.; Fehr, Ernst; Hermes, Henning; Schunk, Daniel - 2024

Working memory capacity is a key component of executive functioning and is thought to play an important role for a wide range of cognitive and noncognitive skills such as fluid intelligence, math, reading, the inhibition of pre-potent impulses or more general self-regulation abilities. Because...

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Evaluation of researchers : a life cycle analysis of German academic economists

Rauber, Michael (contributor); … - 2006

In this paper we ague that any meaningful bibliometric evaluation of researchers needs to take into account that …

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Scarring or scaring? : the psychological impact of past unemployment and future unemployment risk

Knabe, Andreas (contributor); Rätzel, Steffen (contributor) - 2008

We reassess the "scarringʺ hypothesis by Clark et al. (2001), which states that unemployment experienced in the past reduces a person's current life satisfaction even after the person has become reemployed. Our results suggest that the scar from past unemployment operates via worsened...

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Sharing demographic risk : who is afraid of the baby bust?

Ludwig, Alexander (contributor); Reiter, Michael (contributor) - 2008

We model the optimal reaction of a public PAYG pension system to demographic shocks. We compare the ex-ante first best and second best solution of a Ramsey planner with full commitment to the outcome under simple third best rules that mimic the pension systems observed in the real world. The...

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The cross-section of firms over the business cycle : new facts and a DSGE exploration

Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian - 2009

-sectional firm dynamics ; lumpy investment ; countercyclical risk ; aggregate shocks ; idiosyncratic shocks ; heterogeneous firms …

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