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students' personality traits in adolescence. We focus on personality traits as part of their non-cognitive skills set and as …
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The human personality predicts a wide range of activities and occupational choices - from musical sophistication to … entrepreneurial careers. However, which method should be applied if information on personality traits is used for prediction and …
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We provide the first joint evidence on the relationship between individuals' cognitive abilities, their personality and … set of measures of personality traits, namely locus of control, reciprocity and all basic items from the Five Factor … Personality Inventory. Our estimates suggest a positive effect of so-called fluid intelligence or speed of cognition on males …
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the development of one particular aspect of personality, that is, locus of control. Overall gender differences were more …
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Models in which employers learn about the productivity of young workers, such as Altonji and Pierret (2001), have two principal implications: First, the distribution of wages becomes more dispersed as a cohort of workers gains experience; second, the coefficient on a variable that employers...
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In direct contrast to conventional wisdom and most economic models of gender differences in age of marriage, we present robust evidence that men and women who are married to differently-aged spouses are negatively selected. Earnings analysis of married couples in the 1970, 1980, 1990 and 2000...
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