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The effect of non-cognitive traits on health behaviours in adolescence
Mendolia, Silvia; Walker, Ian - 2013
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
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Do They Find You on Facebook? Facebook Profile Picture and Hiring Chances
Baert, Stijn - 2015
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
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Whoever You Want Me to Be: Personality and Incentives
McGee, Andrew; McGee, Peter - 2020
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
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What Does Job Applicants' Body Art Signal to Employers?
Baert, Stijn; Herregods, Jolien; Sterkens, Philippe - 2023
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
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The Effect of Personality Traits on Subject Choice and Performance in High School: Evidence from an English Cohort
Mendolia, Silvia; Walker, Ian - 2014
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377302
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Do NEETs Need Grit?
Mendolia, Silvia; Walker, Ian - 2014
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481643
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The Effect of Personality Traits on Subject Choice and Performance in High School: Evidence from an English Cohort
Mendolia, Silvia; Walker, Ian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884263
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The Effect of Non-Cognitive Traits on Health Behaviours in Adolescence
Mendolia, Silvia; Walker, Ian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
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/10010959822
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Do NEETs Need Grit?
Mendolia, Silvia; Walker, Ian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011106162