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 …

diesen Zweck geeignet. Wir berichten über die Adaption eines englischsprachigen Kurzinstruments zur Messung der Big Five. Das … measurement devices from personality psychology are not well suited for this task. In this article we describe the adaptation of …-multimethod-analysis. The results show that the questionnaire allows for an economic measurement of the Big Five, meets reliability standards …

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 …

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. …

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 …

population-wide enlistment data. Measurement error bias in fathers' ability measures is corrected for using two sets of …