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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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The Economic Approach to Personality, Character and Virtue

Heckman, James J.; Galaty, Bridget; Tian, Haihan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This chapter presents an economic approach to character and personality traits with an application to the study of virtue. Economists interpret psychological traits, including character traits and virtue, as strategies that shape responses to situations (actions) determined by underlying...

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Understanding Creativity

Galenson, David W. - 2010

range of arts. It is now time to extend economic research on creativity, by applying this analysis to other intellectual … not only to understand, but perhaps also to increase, the creativity of these remarkable individuals, and to help others …. Yet creativity - a primary source of the technological change that drives economic growth - is largely the domain of …

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The Most Important Works of Art of the Twentieth Century

Galenson, David W. - 2006

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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Creativity and the Family Tree : Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent

Link, Albert N. - 2011

relationship follows from established theories of developmental creativity, and our empirical analysis is based on survey data …

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Human Frictions in the Transmission of Economic Policies

D'Acunto, Francesco; Hoang, Daniel; Paloviita, Maritta; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Many consumers below the top of the distribution of a representative population by cognitive abilities barely react to monetary and fiscal policies that aim to stimulate consumption and borrowing, even when they are financially unconstrained and despite substantial debt capacity. Differences in...

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Measuring Self-Control

Ameriks, John - 2004

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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Biased Memory and Perceptions of Self-Control

Sial, Afras Y.; Sydnor, Justin R.; Taubinsky, Dmitry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Using data from a field experiment on exercise, we analyze the relationship between imperfect memory and people's awareness of their limited self-control. We find that people overestimate past gym attendance, and that larger overestimation of past attendance is associated with (i) more...

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Can Competitiveness predict Education and Labor Market Outcomes? Evidence from Incentivized Choice and Survey Measures

Buser, Thomas; Niederle, Muriel; Oosterbeek, Hessel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We assess the predictive power of two measures of competitiveness for education and labor market outcomes using a large, representative survey panel. The first is incentivized and is an online adaptation of the laboratory-based Niederle-Vesterlund measure. The second is an unincentivized survey...

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