The subject of this paper is how the epistemic limitations of individuals and their biases in reasoning affect collective decisions and in particular the functioning of democracies. In fact, while the cognitive sciences have largely shown how the imperfections of human rationality shape...

Is there an entrepreneurial personality and does it appear early in life? We provide a new answer on this question by using the so-called Type A behavior traits (Aggression, Leadership, Responsibility, and Eagerness-Energy), measured in childhood and adolescence, and examining their relationship...

Inhalt: Vorwort. Doris Kaucic-Rieger: Ganzheitliche Mädchenförderung auf dem Weg in das Ausbildungs- und Berufsleben. Roswitha Tschenett: Zur Minimierung von Gender Gaps bei der Ausbildungs- und Berufswahl. Elli Scambor: Burschen und Care-Berufe: Geschlechtersegregation, Barrieren und...

Building on Lazear's skill weights approach, we study the effect of having more or less heterogeneity in the training curriculum on supply of and demand for apprenticeship training. Modernizations of training curricula provide us with a quasi‐experimental setting as these modernizations can be...