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The Origins of Common Identity : Evidence from Alsace-Lorraine

Dehdari, Sirus H. - 2019

The quasi-exogenous division of the French regions Alsace and Lorraine after the Franco-Prussian War allows us to provide evidence about group identity formation within historically homogeneous regions. Using several measures of stated and revealed preferences spanning over half a century, we...

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The Origins of Common Identity : Evidence from Alsace-Lorraine

Dehdari, Sirus H. - 2019

The quasi-exogenous division of the French regions Alsace and Lorraine after the Franco-Prussian War allows us to provide evidence about group identity formation within historically homogeneous regions. We use several measures of stated and revealed preferences at the municipal-level in a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858698

The origins of common identity : evidence from Alsace-Lorraine

Dehdari, Sirus H.; Gehring, Kai - 2019

The quasi-exogenous division of the French regions Alsace and Lorraine after the Franco- Prussian War allows us to provide evidence about group identity formation within historically homogeneous regions. We use several measures of stated and revealed preferences at the municipal-level in a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012124844

The mediating role of positive psychological capital between perceived leadership styles and workplace advice network closeness

Zaman, Nadeem Uz; Bibi, Zainab; Mohammad, Jan; Karim, … - In: Pakistan journal of commerce and social sciences 11 (2017) 1, pp. 66-89

(PLS) and workplace advice network closeness. Fifteen different groups with a composition of 20-25 members were randomly …-borrowed questionnaire of 30 items (12 for total PsyCap; 18 for PLS) and a sociometric matrix to measure workplace advice network closeness … closeness of followers in the workplace advice network. The same shift in the leadership styles from authoritative to laissez …

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The intergenerational transmission of cognitive and non-cognitive abilities

Grönqvist, Erik; Öckert, Björn; Vlachos, Jonas - 2010

We study the intergenerational transmission of cognitive and non-cognitive abilities between parents and sons using population-wide enlistment data. Conscripts are evaluated at the same age and with comparable methods across cohorts, and we correct for measurement error bias in fathers' ability...

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Are smarter people really less risk averse?

Sousa, Sergio - 2010

Using hypothetical lottery choices to measure risk preferences, Frederick (2005) finds that higher cognitive ability is associated with less risk aversion. This paper documents, however, that when using an incentive compatible measure of risk preference, attitudes towards risk are not associated...

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Abilities

Grönqvist, Erik; Vlachos, Jonas; Öckert, Björn - 2011

We study the intergenerational transmission of cognitive and non-cognitive abilities between fathers and sons using population-wide enlistment data. Measurement error bias in fathers' ability measures is corrected for using two sets of instruments. Results suggest that previous estimates of...

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The Labor Market Returns to Cognitive and Noncognitive Ability: Evidence from the Swedish Enlistment

Lindqvist, Erik; Westman, Roine - 2009

We use data from the military enlistment for a large representative sample of Swedish men to assess the importance of cognitive and noncognitive ability for labor market outcomes. The measure of noncognitive ability is based on a personal interview conducted by a psychologist. Unlike...

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Be smart, live long : the relationship between cognitive and non-cognitive abilities and mortality

Öhman, Mattias - 2015

I study the association between cognitive and non-cognitive abilities and mortality, and investigate how well income and education act as proxy measures for ability. The risk of premature mortality is estimated using Cox proportional hazard models with a dataset of 692,303 Swedish men aged 18-20...

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Personality and the education-health gradient : a note on "Understanding differences in health behaviors by education"

Conti, Gabriella; Hansman, Christopher - 2012

We test the robustness of the results of Cutler and Lleras-Muney (2010) on the role of personality in explaining the education-health gradient by using alternative measures of child personality available in the National Child Development Study. We show that, alternatively to the authors...

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