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The importance of early conscientiousness for socio-economic outcomes : evidence from the British Cohort Study
Prevoo, Tyas; Weel, Bas ter - 2013
conscientiousness and adult outcomes. Measurement error is corrected for by applying IV-techniques, errors-in-variables estimators and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786479
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Personality, IQ, and lifetime earnings
Gensowski, Miriam - 2014
paper, I show that even in a group of high-IQ men and women, lifetime earnings are substantially influenced by their … more educated men. Personality and IQ also influence earnings indirectly through educational choice. Surprisingly … education and IQ are less likely to marry, and thus have less income through their husbands. To identify personality traits, I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010364493
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Overeducation and wages : the role of cognitive skills and personality traits
Palczyńska, Marta - In: Baltic journal of economics 21 (2021) 1, pp. 85-111
This article investigates the extent to which personality traits and cognitive skills can be seen as potential determinants of overeducation, and can explain the overeducation wage penalty. Using a representative survey of the Polish working-age population with well-established measures of...
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The predictive power of self-control for life outcomes
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Dahmann, Sarah Christina; … - 2021
This study investigates the predictive power of self-control for individuals and their children using population representative data. We use the well-established Brief Self-Control Scale to demonstrate that people's trait self-control is highly predictive of their life outcomes. Higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012792212
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The returns to personality traits across the wage distribution
Collischon, Matthias - 2017
This paper investigates heterogeneous wage effects of non-cognitive skills across the wage distribution. I develop a model of wage determination under uncertainty with respect to individual productivity based on three components (minimum wages, productivity premiums, bargaining premiums). Based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011701178
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Long run effects of universal childcare on personality traits
Bach, Maximilian; Koebe, Josefine; Peter, Frauke - 2019
Although universal childcare has become an essential tool to support child development, few economic studies analyze its effects on non-cognitive skills and little is known about causal effects on these skills in the long run. In this paper we go beyond short run analyses and examine the long...
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On the interpretation of non-cognitive skills : what is being measured and why it matters
Humphries, John Eric; Kosse, Fabian - 2016
Across academic sub-fields such as labor, education, and behavioral economics, the measurement and interpretation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572150
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On the interpretation of non-cognitive skills : what is being measured and why it matters
Humphries, John Eric; Kosse, Fabian - 2016
Across academic sub-fields such as labor, education, and behavioral economics, the measurement and interpretation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594151
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Cognitive and non-cognitive skills, hiring channels, and wages in Bangladesh
Hilger, Anne; Nordman, Christophe J.; Sarr, Leopold R. - 2018
This paper uses a novel matched employer-employee data set representing the formal sector in Bangladesh to provide descriptive evidence of both the relative importance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in this part of the labor market and the interplay between skills and hiring channels in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011871907
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Evolving returns to personality
Izadi, Ramin; Tuhkuri, Joonas - 2024
We analyze trends in labor-market returns to psychological traits using data from half a million Finnish men from 2001 to 2015. Cognitive skills' value declined, while noncognitive skills' value increased. Our novel findings show that extraversion drives this rise, while conscientiousness...
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