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The intergenerational transmission of cognitive and non-cognitive skills during adolescence and young adulthood
Anger, Silke - 2011
personality traits (Big Five, locus of control) on their adolescent and young adult children's traits with the effects of parental … personality traits. The finding that non-cognitive skills are not as strongly transmitted as cognitive skills, suggests that there …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278544
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Die Weitergabe von Persönlichkeitseigenschaften und intellektuellen Fähigkeiten von Eltern an ihre Kinder
Anger, Silke - In: DIW Wochenbericht 79 (2012) 29, pp. 3-12
The present study investigates the extent to which cognitive abilities and personality traits are passed on from …-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) indicate a higher level of intergenerational transmission of cognitive abilities than of personality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283723
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The intergenerational transmission of cognitive and non-cognitive skills during adolescence and young adulthood
Anger, Silke - 2012
personality traits (Big Five, locus of control) on their adolescent and young adult children's traits with the effects of parental … personality traits. The finding that non-cognitive skills are not as strongly transmitted as cognitive skills, suggests that there …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287571
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Noncognitive skills in economics: Models, measurement, and empirical evidence
Thiel, Hendrik; Thomsen, Stephan L. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
There is an increasing economic literature considering personality. This paper provides an overview on the role of …. Based on the relevant literature from different disciplines, the common psychometric measures used to assess personality are … discussed. A recently proposed theoretical framework of human capital production takes personality explicitly into account. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008500712
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Noncognitive Skills in Economics: Models, Measurement, and Empirical Evidence
Thiel, Hendrik; Thomsen, Stephan L. - Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaft, … - 2009
There is an increasing economic literature considering personality. This paper provides an overview on the role of …. Based on the relevant literature from different disciplines, the common psychometric measures used to assess personality are … discussed. A recently proposed theoretical framework of human capital production takes personality explicitly into account. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502492
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Optimal Task Assignments with Loss-Averse Agents
Balmaceda, Felipe - 2018
This paper studies optimal task assignments in a setting where agents are expectation-based loss averse according to KoszegiRabin (2006) and KoszegiRabin (2007) and are compensated according to an aggregated performance measure in which tasks are technologically independent. We show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927853
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Human Capital Accumulation and Endogenous Growth in a Dual Economy
Gupta, Manash Ranjan; Chakraborty, Bidisha - In: Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics 47 (2006) 2, pp. 169-195
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009206556
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Microeconomic models with latent variables: Applications of measurement error models in empirical industrial organization and labor economics
Hu, Yingyao - 2015
This paper reviews recent developments in nonparametric identi.cation of mea- surement error models and their applications in applied microeconomics, in particular, in empirical industrial organization and labor economics. Measurement error models describe mappings from a latent distribution to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445721
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Skill Formation, Temporary Disadvantage and Elite Education
Hjertstrand, Per; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2020
Elite skills have become crucial in today's superstar economy. We develop a multi-period skill-formation model where we show that individuals with temporary disadvantages must exert greater effort to gain access to elite education. This "underdog-incentive effect" implies that "educated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314899
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Microeconomic models with latent variables : applications of measurement error models in empirical industrial organization and labor economics
Hu, Yingyao - 2015
This paper reviews recent developments in nonparametric identi.cation of mea- surement error models and their applications in applied microeconomics, in particular, in empirical industrial organization and labor economics. Measurement error models describe mappings from a latent distribution to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010469057