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Personality Traits, Self-Employment, and Professions
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2010
We investigate the effect of broad personality traits - the Big Five - on an individual's decision to become self … an important effect of an individual's profession on his or her decision to run an own business. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600985
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Personality traits, self-employment, and professions
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2010
We investigate the effect of broad personality traits' - the Big Five - on an individua's decision to become self … an important effect of an individual's profession on his or her decision to run an own business. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286449
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Lifelong learning inequality? The relevance of family background for on-the-job training
Antoni, Manfred - 2011
Despite ample evidence on intergenerational persistence of formal education as well as on the determinants of non-formal training, these issues have not yet been analysed jointly. The question remains whether people from low-qualified family backgrounds make up for their relatively sparse own...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281836
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The returns to cognitive abilities and personality traits in Germany
Heineck, Guido; Anger, Silke - 2008
Personality Inventory. Our estimates suggest a positive effect of so-called fluid intelligence or speed of cognition on males …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265041
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The economics and psychology of personality traits
Borghans, Lex; Duckworth, Angela Lee; Heckman, James Joseph - 2008
This paper explores the interface between personality psychology and economics. We examine the predictive power of personality and the stability of personality traits over the life cycle. We develop simple analytical frameworks for interpreting the evidence in personality psychology and suggest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277205
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Can money change who we are? estimating the effects of unearned income on measures of incentive-enhancing personality
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Boyce, Christopher J.; Wood, Alex M. - 2011
The importance of noncognitive childhood skills in predicting higher wages is well documented in economics. This paper studies the reverse. Using surveys of lottery winners, we analyze the effects of unearned income on the Big Five personality traits. After correcting for potential endogeneity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282309
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Understanding the mechanisms through which an influential early childhood program boosted adult outcomes
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Savelyev, Peter - 2012
A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291343
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On individual cursedness: How personality shapes individuals' sensitivity to incur a winner's curse
Chlaß, Nadine - 2011
The winner's curse is a well-known deviation from rational self-interest in decision-making under asymmetric … of the decision task, nor level-k thinking, nor a disability to infer information from others' actions (Charness and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281650
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Gender differences in competitiveness, risk tolerance, and other personality traits: Do they contribute to the gender gap in entrepreneurship?
Bönte, Werner; Jarosch, Monika - 2011
In this study we empirically investigate the contribution of personality traits to the gender gap in entrepreneurship … and nascent entrepreneurship among women and men. Moreover, women's considerably lower level of IEA contributes … significantly to the gender gap in entrepreneurship. The lower level of IEA is mainly due to women's lower levels of competitiveness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291124
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Hard evidence on soft skills
Heckman, James J.; Kautz, Tim - 2012
This paper summarizes recent evidence on what achievement tests measure; how achievement tests relate to other measures of cognitive ability like IQ and grades; the important skills that achievement tests miss or mismeasure, and how much these skills matter in life. Achievement tests miss, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282367