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The Right Stuff? Personality and Entrepreneurship
Hamilton, Barton H. - 2018
We construct a structural model of entry into self-employment to evaluate the impact of policies supporting entrepreneurship. Previous work has recognized that workers may opt for self-employment due to the non-pecuniary benefits of running a business and not necessarily because they are good at...
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Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs : A Review of Recent Literature
Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2017
We review the extensive literature since 2000 on the personality traits of entrepreneurs. We first consider baseline personality traits like the Big-5 model, self-efficacy and innovativeness, locus of control, and the need for achievement. We then consider risk attitudes and goals and...
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Creativity and the Family Tree : Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent
Link, Albert - 2014
relationship follows from established theories of developmental creativity, and our empirical analysis is based on survey data …
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The Most Important Works of Art of the Twentieth Century
Galenson, David W. - 2020
A survey of art history textbooks identifies and ranks the eight most important works of the 20th century. The most important painting of the century was Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, executed by Picasso at the age of 26, which began the development of Cubism. Among the other seven works, a...
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Understanding Creativity
Galenson, David W. - 2010
. Yet creativity - a primary source of the technological change that drives economic growth - is largely the domain of … has several central components. A key element is the systematic measurement of an artist's creativity over the course of … economic research on creativity, by applying this analysis to other intellectual domains. It is important to recognize that …
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Measuring Self-Control
Ameriks, John; Caplin, Andrew; Leahy, John V.; Tyler, Tom - 2021
How significant are individual differences in self-control? Do these differences impact wealth accumulation? From where do they derive? Our survey-based measure of self-control provides insights into all three questions: 1.There are individual differences in self-control not only of a...
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Born to Lead? The Effect of Birth Order on Non-Cognitive Abilities
Black, Sandra E. - 2017
We study the effect of birth order on personality traits among men using population data on enlistment records and occupations for Sweden. We find that earlier born men are more emotionally stable, persistent, socially outgoing, willing to assume responsibility, and able to take initiative than...
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Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation
Bell, Alexander - 2017
We characterize the factors that determine who becomes an inventor in the United States, focusing on the role of inventive ability (“nature”) vs. environment (“nurture”). Using deidentified data on 1.2 million inventors from patent records linked to tax records, we first show that...
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CEO Personality and Firm Policies
Gow, Ian D. - 2016
Based on two samples of high quality personality data for chief executive officers (CEOs), we use linguistic features extracted from conferences calls and statistical learning techniques to develop a measure of CEO personality in terms of the Big Five traits: agreeableness, conscientiousness,...
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What Determines Consumer Financial Distress? Place- and Person-Based Factors
Keys, Benjamin J.; Mahoney, Neale; Yang, Hanbin - 2022
We use credit report data to study consumer financial distress in America. We show there are large, persistent disparities in financial distress across regions. To understand these patterns, we conduct a “movers” analysis. For collections and default, there is only weak convergence following...
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