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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 psychologists to infer traits are based on behaviors, broadly defined. These behaviors are produced from multiple traits interacting with incentives in situations. In general, measures...
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The Importance of Cognitive and Social Skills for the Duration of Unemployment
Niepel, Verena - 2011
This paper studies how cognitive and social skills in childhood are related to the duration of unemployment in adolescence and early adulthood. I estimate a flexible proportional hazard rate model for the probability of making a transition from unemployment to employment during an individual's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320394
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Estimating the technology of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J.; Schennach, Susanne M. - 2010
This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills. Skills are determined by parental environments and investments at different stages of childhood. We estimate the elasticity of substitution between investments in one period and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288377
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Intelligence, Self-confidence and Entrepreneurship
Asoni, Andrea - 2011
find that individuals with higher measured intelligence and self-confidence are more likely to be entrepreneurs …. Furthermore I present evidence suggesting that intelligence and self-confidence affect business ownership through two different … channels: intelligence increases business survival while self-confidence increases business creation. Finally, once we control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320404
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Models as Measuring Instruments
Rodenburg, Peter - 2004
in models by analysing the measurement of duration dependence of unemployment. Since search theory can’t be made … - provided the models is calibrated - this suffice for measurement. This paper explores this construction of a measuring device … measurement to take place by modelling behaviour according to some assumptions, which operate as constraints. While this Weibull …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325381
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The measurement of social welfare
Tsuneki, Atsushi - 2007
the present suboptimal economy. We discuss pros and cons of our approach for the measurement of welfare compared with … other approaches to applied welfare economics, especially the measurement of deadweight loss. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332307
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A sociological perspective on measuring social norms by means of strategy method experiments
Rauhut, Heiko; Winter, Fabian - 2009
The measurement of social norms plays a pivotal role in many social sciences. While economists predominantly conduct …, on the one hand, often fall short in the measurement of more complex elements, such as the conditionality or the level of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267089
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Job competition and the wage curve
Longhi, Simonetta - 2010
The wage curve literature consistently finds a negative relationship between regional unemployment rates and regional wages; the most widely accepted theoretical explanations interpret the unemployment rate as a measure of job competition. This paper proposes new ways of measuring job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269699
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How many bucks in a bang: on the estimation of the economic costs of conflict
de Groot, Olaf J.; Brück, Tilman; Bozzoli, Carlos - 2009
The estimation of the costs of conflict is currently receiving a lot of attention in the literature. This paper aims to … field of conflict cost measurement. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291777
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Vulnerability in a Stochastic Dynamic Model
Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2003
Most measures of vulnerability are a-theoretic and essentially static. In this paper we use a stochastic Ramsey model to find a household's optimal welfare and we measure vulnerability as the shortfall from the welfare attained if the household consumed permanently at the poverty line. The...
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