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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 …
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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
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
personality traits (Big Five, locus of control) on their adolescent and young adult children's traits with the effects of parental … personality traits. The finding that non-cognitive skills are not as strongly transmitted as cognitive skills, suggests that there …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278544
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
We study how children's socio-emotional skills and well-being in adolescence are affected by an increase in the duration of parental care during infancy. Exploiting a Danish reform that extended paid parental leave in 2002 and effectively delayed children's entry into formal out-of-home care, we...
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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
personality traits (Big Five, locus of control) on their adolescent and young adult children's traits with the effects of parental … personality traits. The finding that non-cognitive skills are not as strongly transmitted as cognitive skills, suggests that there …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644628