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Slipping the surly bonds: The value of autonomy in self-employment

Croson, David C.; Minniti, Maria - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 2, pp. 355-365

This paper models the tradeoff between increased autonomy from self-employment and the generally higher income that traditional employment offers. While the demand for autonomy is a purely psychological construct, the economic tradeoffs involved in its achievement are eminently amenable to...

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Ethnic identity and discrimination among children

Friesen, Jane; Arifovic, Jasmina; Wright, Stephen C.; … - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 6, pp. 1156-1169

We engaged over 430 Canadian children in a series of activities designed to reveal their evaluations of three ethnic groups (White, East Asian and South Asian), their identification with these groups, and their behavior towards them in a dictator game. Our experiments took place at the...

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Entrepreneurship training, risk aversion and other personality traits: Evidence from a random experiment

Fairlie, Robert W.; Holleran, William - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 2, pp. 366-378

A growing literature examines the relationship between personality traits and entrepreneurship, but no previous studies … explore whether personality or psychological traits predispose individuals to benefit more from entrepreneurship training. To … address selection issues, we use novel data from the largest-ever randomized control experiment providing entrepreneurship …

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Trust, positive reciprocity, and negative reciprocity: Do these traits impact entrepreneurial dynamics?

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank; Kritikos, Alexander - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 2, pp. 394-409

Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variables of social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are...

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A successful businessman is not a gambler. Risk attitude and business performance among small enterprises in Nigeria

Willebrands, Daan; Lammers, Judith; Hartog, Joop - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 2, pp. 342-354

This paper analyses the effect of risk attitudes of firm owners on business performance among small enterprises in Lagos, Nigeria. We find that there is no robust support for a positive effect of willingness to take risk through compensation for risk taking. Perception of risk does have a...

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Exploiting opportunities at all cost? Entrepreneurial intent and externalities

Urbig, Diemo; Weitzel, Utz; Rosenkranz, Stephanie; … - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 2, pp. 379-393

who consider entrepreneurship as a future occupation invest significantly less than others in destructive opportunities … latter effect seems to be entrepreneurship-specific, because the investment behavior of the generally more talented does not …

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