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What grades and achievement tests measure

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Heckman, James J.; … - 2016

Intelligence quotient (IQ), grades, and scores on achievement tests are widely used as measures of cognition, yet the … correlations among them are far from perfect. This paper uses a variety of data sets to show that personality and IQ predict grades … than IQ of a variety of important life outcomes. Both grades and achievement tests are substantially better predictors of …

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Hard evidence on soft skills

Heckman, James J.; Kautz, Tim - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 19 (2012) 4, pp. 451-464

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Fostering and measuring skills : interventions that improve character and cognition

Heckman, James J.; Kautz, Tim - 2013

This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and noncognitive skills. The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills – personality traits, goals, motivations, and preferences that are valued in the labor market, in...

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School-track environment or endowment : what determines different other-regarding behavior across peer groups?

John, Katrin; Thomsen, Stephan L. - In: Games and economic behavior 94 (2015), pp. 122-141

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The effects of personality and IQ on portfolio outcomes

Firth, Chris; Stewart, Neil; Antoniou, Constantinos; … - In: Finance research letters 51 (2023), pp. 1-8

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Charitable behaviour and the big five personality traits : evidence from UK panel data

Brown, Sarah; Taylor, Karl - 2015

This paper investigates the association between personality traits and charitable behaviour, namely donations of time and money, using data from Understanding Society, the most recent large scale UK household longitudinal survey. Due to the censored nature of the outcome variables, i.e. some...

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The individual and joint performance of economic preferences, personality, and self-control in predicting criminal behavior

Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2014

We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...

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The individual and joint performance of economic preferences, personality, and self-control in predicting criminal behavior

Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2014

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Unobservable, but unimportant? : the influence of personality traits (and other usually unobserved variables) for the estimation of treatment effects ; conference paper

Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Mitnik, Oscar A. - 2014 - Preliminary version, this draft: February 28, 2014

A large and highly used number of treatment effects estimators rely on the unconfoundedness assumption ("selection on observables") which is fundamentally non testable. When evaluating the effects of labor market policies, researchers need to observe both variables that affect treatment...

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Life satisfaction, income and personality

Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini, Aldo - 2015

We use personality traits to better understand the relationship between income and life satisfaction. Personality traits mediate the effect of income on life satisfaction. The effect of neuroticism, which measures sensitivity to threat and punishment, is strong in both the British Household...

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