traits predictive of performance. Students adopt personality traits that are productive in the university context from their …Do the people around us influence our personality? To answer this question, we conduct an experiment with 543 … university students who we randomly assign to study groups. Our results show that students become more similar to their peers …

scores, high school GPA, and college-test taking over and above cognitive skills. Exploiting random assignment of students to …

a higher share of female classmates on students' disruptive behavior, engagement, test scores, and major choices in … disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged schools. We exploit the random assignment of students to classrooms in early high school in … students that contains a large and diverse set of school qualities, and household incomes, and b) we measure disruption and …

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 …

and average personality traits. …

panel, we investigate to what extent personality traits, human capital, and the employment history influence the start …

correlations with a Big Five personality measure and is correlated with actual risk-taking behaviour. The results suggest that the …

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 …

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 …

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 …