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Ability dispersion and team performance
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2014
What is the effect of dispersed levels of cognitive ability of members of a (business) team on their teamś performance … under identical circumstances. We ensured exogenous variation in - otherwise random - team composition by assigning students … to teams based on their measured cognitive abilities (Raven test). Each team performs a variety of tasks, often involving …
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Ability dispersion and team performance : a field experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2012
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Anticipating peer ranking causes hormonal adaptations that benefit cognitive performance
Dreu, Carsten K. W. de; Gërxhani, Klarita; Schram, Arthur - 2019
Performance ranking is common across a range of professional and recreational domains. Even when it has no economic consequences but does order people in terms of their social standing, anticipating such performance ranking may impact how people feel and perform. We examined this possibility by...
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Who can predict their own Demise? : accuracy of longevity expectations by education and cognition
Bago d'Uva, Teresa; Erdogan Ciftci, Esen; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2015
Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health, with consequences for wellbeing in old age. Systematic differences in the accuracy of longevity expectations may partly explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education...
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If you are so smart, why aren't you an entrepreneur? : returns to cognitive and social ability : entrepreneurs versus employees
Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van; Sluis, Justin van der - 2008
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Seeing the world with different eyes : gender differences in perceptions and the propensity to start a business
Koellinger, Philipp; Minniti, Maria; Schade, Christian D. - 2008
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Territorial capital and regional growth : increasing returns in cognitive knowledge use
Capello, Roberta; Caragliu, Andrea; Nijkamp, Peter - 2009
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If you are so smart, why aren't you an entrepreneur?
Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van; Sluis, Justin van der - 2008
How valuable are cognitive and social abilities for entrepreneurs’ incomes as compared to employees? We answer three questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an entrepreneur's earnings relative to employees? (2) Do different cognitive abilities (e.g. math...
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Territorial capital and regional growth : increasing returns in cognitive knowledge use
Capello, Roberta; Caragliu, Andrea; Nijkamp, Peter - 2009
Knowledge drives the growth of nations and regions in a competitive space-economy. Hence, we would expect a strong correlation between investments in R&D, knowledge and learning processes, on the one hand, and productivity increases, on the other. However, the empirical evidence shows consistent...
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Slipping anchor? : testing the vignettes approach to identification and correction of reporting heterogeneity
Bago d'Uva, Teresa; Lindeoom, Maarten; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2009
Anchoring vignettes are increasingly used to identify and correct heterogeneity in the reporting of health, work disability, life satisfaction, political efficacy, etc. with the aim of improving interpersonal comparability of subjective indicators of these constructs. The method relies on two...
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