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Fostering and Measuring Skills: Improving Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime Success
Kautz, Tim; Heckman, James J.; Diris, Ron; ter Weel, Bas; … - 2014
establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills: personality traits, goals, motivations, and … preferences that are valued in the labor market, in school, and in many other domains. Their predictive power rivals that of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481584
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Fostering and measuring skills : improving cognitive and non-cognitive skills to promote lifetime success
Kautz, Tim; Heckman, James J.; Diris, Ron; Weel, Bas ter; … - 2014
establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills: personality traits, goals, motivations, and … preferences that are valued in the labor market, in school, and in many other domains. Their predictive power rivals that of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457900
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Identification problems in personality psychology
Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart; Heckman, James J.; … - 2011
This paper discusses and illustrates identification problems in personality psychology. The measures used by … explained by personality variables. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278574
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Identification Problems in Personality Psychology
Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart; Heckman, James J.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper discusses and illustrates identification problems in personality psychology. The measures used by … explained by personality variables. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008922967
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Hard evidence on soft skills
Heckman, James J.; Kautz, Tim - 2012
- personality traits, goals, motivations, and preferences that are valued in the labor market, in school, and in many other domains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282367
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The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Children's Intertemporal Choices
Sutter, Matthias; Angerer, Silvia; Rützler, Daniela; … - 2015
According to Chen’s (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the future by using present tense (like German). We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388218
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The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Children's Intertemporal Choices
Sutter, Matthias; Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, … - 2015
According to Chen's (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the future by using present tense (like German). We complement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401662
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Collective Intertemporal Decisions and Heterogeneity in Groups
Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2019
Many important intertemporal decisions, such as investments of firms or households, are made by groups rather than individuals. Little is known what happens to such collective decisions when group members have different incentives for waiting, because the economics literature on group decision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052822
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Collective intertemporal decisions and heterogeneity in groups
Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2019
Many important intertemporal decisions, such as investments of firms or households, are made by groups rather than individuals. Little is known what happens to such collective decisions when group members have different incentives for waiting, because the economics literature on group decision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140886
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Collective Intertemporal Decisions and Heterogeneity in Groups
Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2021
Many important intertemporal decisions are made by groups rather than individuals. What happens to collective decisions when there is internal conflict about the tradeoff between present and future has not been thoroughly investigated so far. We study experimentally the causal effect of group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420376