emphasizing variables derived from formal decision theory. In a data set on trainee truckers in a large US company, we provide a … comparing the predictive power of measurements derived from personality theory and decision theory for several individual …. Further, decision theory and personality variables are meaningfully related. For example, we confirm that cognitive ability …

modelling of random components of decision making is crucial to establishing the long supposed but empirically elusive link …

-related classes affects major changes. We also control for other factors that may affect a student’s final major including: high … school student performance, gender of faculty, and economic returns of majors. Finally, we examine how students’ decisions … signals) to impel female students to switch majors. …

from two studies and three distinct decision tasks, we present data on over 1100 participants documenting the confirmation …

We investigate whether universities select by, or also shape, their students' personality, as implied by the human … should teach their students broader skills. …

university students who we randomly assign to study groups. Our results show that students become more similar to their peers … along several dimensions. Students with more competitive peers become more competitive, students with more open-minded peers … become more open-minded, and students with more conscientious peers become more conscientious. We see no significant effects …

using a large survey linked to administrative student register data. Exploiting cross sectional variation in students' self …-reported grit in the last year of compulsory school, we find that an increase in students' grit is associated with a higher … cognitive skill measures and a comprehensive set of other students' background characteristics. Moreover, using novel data on …