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This paper systematically investigates whether different kinds of personality characteristics influence entrepreneurial … and further personality characteristics, which are more specifically related to entrepreneurial tasks, influence entry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278676
This paper systematically investigates whether different kinds of personality characteristics influence entrepreneurial … and further personality characteristics, which are more specifically related to entrepreneurial tasks, influence entry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868132
This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students' personality … and across states to identify the effect of schooling on students' Big Five personality traits and on their locus of … students and students from disrupted families showed stronger personality changes following the reform: they became more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352303
concepts of personality - such as the Big Five and locus of control - are related. We analyze data from incentivized laboratory … experiments and representative samples and find only low degrees of association between economic preferences and personality. We … preference and personality measures. The analysis reveals that the two concepts are rather complementary when it comes to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282182
concepts of personality – such as the Big Five and locus of control – are related. We analyze data from incentivized laboratory … experiments and representative samples and find only low degrees of association between economic preferences and personality. We … preference and personality measures. The analysis reveals that the two concepts are rather complementary when it comes to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279288
This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students' personality … and across states to identify the effect of schooling on students' Big Five personality traits and on their locus of … students and students from disrupted families showed stronger personality changes following the reform: they became more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764603
This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and health behaviours using a large … adolescent and family characteristics and we find that personality traits do affect health behaviours. In particular, individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293228
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420759
What can employers learn from personality tests when job applicants have incentives to misrepresent themselves? Using a … within-subject, laboratory experiment, we compare personality measures with and without incentives for misrepresentation …. Incentivized personality measures are weakly to moderately correlated with non-incentivized measures in most treatments but are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322608
of hireability and rated personality, similar in terms of rated taste to collaborate but worse in terms of rated direct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377214