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Age at school transition and children's cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes
Tushar, Bharati,; Green, Thea Harpley - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012601799
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Personality traits and cognitive ability in political selection
Jokela, Markus; Meriläinen, Jaakko; Tukiainen, Janne; … - 2023 - February 2023 (first version July 2022, second version August 2022)
We present the first comprehensive evidence on the role of cognitive ability and personality traits in the selection of electoral candidates and election of politicians. Using unique data that combine population registers and election statistics from local government elections in Finland with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013280142
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Deception and self-deception
Schwardmann, Peter; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2017
exogenous variation in confidence with a noisy performance signal, we are also able to show that higher confidence indeed makes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011626574
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Cognitive ability and perceived disagreement in learning
Evdokimov, Piotr; Garfagnini, Umberto - 2023
Do agents believe to be agreeing more with others in the long-run? This paper designs an experiment to study how cognitive abilities affect actual and perceived disagreement in a standard sequential belief updating task with public signals. We document a persistent gap in the perception of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477417
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Corona and the stability of personal traits and preferences : evidence from Germany
Frondel, Manuel; Osberghaus, Daniel; Sommer, Stephan - 2021
Based on panel data on around 5,500 German household heads originating from four years, this paper analyzes whether the experience of financial losses due to the Corona pandemic has affected three kinds of personal traits and preferences: the willingness to take risks, patience, and the locus of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012492848
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Personality characteristics and the decision to become and stay self-employed
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2011
This paper systematically investigates whether different kinds of personality characteristics influence entrepreneurial development. On the basis of a large, representative household panel survey, we examine the extent to which the Big Five traits and further personality characteristics, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009008036
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Smart and illicit : who becomes an entrepreneur and does it pay?
Levine, Ross; Rubinstein, Yona - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010191912
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Founder personality and start-up subsidies
Chapman, Gary; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2023
captured by the big five personality traits and entrepreneurial orientation, impacts entrepreneurs' seeking of start …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014305739
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Confidence and career choices : an experiment
Barron, Kai; Gravert, Christina - 2019 - Revised January 2019
Confidence is often seen as the key to success. Empirical evidence about how such beliefs about one's abilities … confidence about one's own ability on two central choices made by workers in the labor market: choosing between jobs with … confidence leads to an increase in subjects' propensity to choose payment schemes that depend heavily on ability. This is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011964220
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Does having insurance change individuals self-confidence?
Guber, Raphael; Kocher, Martin; Winter, Joachim - 2018
subjects' self-confidence. Our novel experimental design allows us to disentangle selection into insurance from the effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011899247