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The impact of peer personality on academic achievement

Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Non, Jan Adrianus; Zölitz, Ulf - 2017

This paper provides evidence of a novel facet of peer effects by showing how peer personality affects educational … persistence of their peers. The personality peer effects that we document are distinct from other observable peer characteristics … and suggest that the personality traits of peers causally affect human capital accumulation. …

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The making of a manager: Evidence from military officer training

Grönqvist, Erik; Lindqvist, Erik - 2015

We show that officer training during the Swedish military service has a strong positive effect on the probability to attain a managerial position later in life. The most intense type of officer training increases the probability of becoming a civilian manager by about 5 percentage points, or 75...

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When workers' skills become unbundled: Some empirical consequences for sorting and wages

Nordström Skans, Oskar; Choné, Philippe; Kramarz, Francis - 2022

This empirical paper analyzes labor market sorting across establishments using Swedish register data on cognitive and non-cognitive abilities. We draw on the theoretical foundations of Chone' and Kramarz (2021), in which workers are endowed with sets of multidimensional skills that need to be...

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Leadership experiences, labor market entry, and early career trajectories

Lundin, Martin; Nordström Skans, Oskar; Zetterberg, Pär - 2016

We study how leadership experiences before labor market entry affect subsequent labor market performance, using a regression discontinuity design to isolate the causal effects. The design is applied to elections of representatives at Swedish student union (SU) councils. Archive data on winning...

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Long-term effects of class size

Fredriksson, Peter; Öckert, Björn; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2012

This paper evaluates the long-term effects of class size in primary school. We use rich administrative data from Sweden and exploit variation in class size created by a maximum class size rule. Smaller classes in the last three years of primary school (age 10 to 13) are not only beneficial for...

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Time preferences and lifetime outcomes

Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Grönqvist, Hans; Lindahl, Lena - 2013

This paper investigates the relationship between time preferences and lifetime social and economic behavior. We use a … Swedish longitudinal dataset that links information from a large survey on children's time preferences at age 13 to … relationship between time preferences and long-run outcomes operates through early human capital investments. …

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Firms and skills: The evolution of worker sorting

Håkanson, Christina; Lindqvist, Erik; Vlachos, Jonas - 2015

We document a significant increase in the sorting of workers by cognitive and non-cognitive skills across Swedish firms between 1986 and 2008. The weight of the evidence suggests that the increase in sorting is due to stronger complementarities between worker skills and technology. In...

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No evidence that siblings' gender affects personality across nine countries

Dudek, Thomas; Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Feld, Jan; Rohrer, … - 2022

Does growing up with a sister rather than a brother affect personality? In this paper, we provide a comprehensive … analysis of the effects of siblings' gender on adults' personality, using data from 85,887 people from 12 large representative …, China, and Indonesia). We investigated the personality traits risk tolerance, trust, patience, locus of control, and the Big …

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Student aid, academic achievement and labor market behavior

Joensen, Juanna Schrøter; Mattana, Elena - 2017

How does the financial aid allocation mechanism affect student behavior? We provide a framework for quantifying the impact of financial aid on student debt, academic capital, and labor market outcomes. We specify and estimate a dynamic discrete choice model of simultaneous education, work, and...

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Choking under pressure: Evidence of the causal effect of audience size on performance

Böheim, René; Grübl, Dominik; Lackner, Mario - 2018

We analyze performance under pressure and estimate the causal effect of audience size on the success of free throws in top-level professional basketball. We use data from the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the seasons 2007/08 through 2015/16. We exploit the exogenous variation in...

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