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, and personality traits explain these firm-level differences in helping and antisocial behavior in the workplace. Our … experimental games by prior research. Together, the results corroborate the importance of both leadership quality and workforce …
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We show that socio-economic status (SES) is a powerful predictor of many facets of a child's personality. The facets of … personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism, as well as crystallized and fluid IQ. We …'s personality by documenting that many dimensions of a child's environment differ systematically by SES: parenting style, quantity …
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proportions. Besides, we find that adolescents with a resilient personality experience less influence of the neighbourhood context …
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In elementary school, girls typically outperform boys in languages and boys typically outperform girls in math. The determinants of these differences have remained largely unexplored. Using rich data from Dutch elementary schools, we decompose the differences in achievement into gender...
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This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and performance in high school using … control for a rich set of adolescent and family characteristics and we find that personality traits do affect study choices … subjects' choices and, the unobservables that influence personality. …
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Is there an entrepreneurial personality and does it appear early in life? We provide a new answer on this question by … using the so-called Type A behavior traits (Aggression, Leadership, Responsibility, and Eagerness-Energy), measured in … Statistics, our results show that the early-life Leadership-dimension is significantly associated with a higher likelihood 1) of …
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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 …
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We investigate whether the publicly available information on Facebook about job applicants affects employers' hiring decisions. To this end, we conduct a field experiment in which fictitious job applications are sent to real job openings in Belgium. The only characteristic in which these...
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This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and education and labour market … show that personality traits do affect education and employment choices. We test the robustness of our results using the … and observables that determine the outcomes and the unobservables that influence personality. …
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Does growing up with a sister rather than a brother affect personality? In this paper, we provide a comprehensive … analysis of the effects of siblings' gender on adults' personality, using data from 85,887 people from 12 large representative …, China, and Indonesia). We investigated the personality traits risk tolerance, trust, patience, locus of control, and the Big …
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