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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 …

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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

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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 …

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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. …

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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. …

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Collective intertemporal decisions and heterogeneity in groups

Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2019

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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...

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