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Challenges in research on preferences and personality traits : measurement, stability, and inference
Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2017
personality traits, challenges regarding the stability of preferences and traits, and challenges when inferring causality …This paper reviews several traditions in economic research on preferences as well as research on personality traits in … personality psychology and lists challenges in both fields. We discuss challenges regarding the measurement of preferences and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011686111
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Challenges in research on preferences and personality traits : measurement, stability, and inference
Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - In: Journal of economic psychology : research in economic … 60 (2017), pp. 1-6
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011756997
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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 and scores on achievement tests. Personality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580913
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Challenges in Research on Preferences and Personality Traits: Measurement, Stability, and Inference
Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2017
personality traits, challenges regarding the stability of preferences and traits, and challenges when inferring causality …This paper reviews several traditions in economic research on preferences as well as research on personality traits in … personality psychology and lists challenges in both fields. We discuss challenges regarding the measurement of preferences and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653290
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Challenges in research on preferences and personality traits: Measurement, stability, and inference
Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2017
personality traits, challenges regarding the stability of preferences and traits, and challenges when inferring causality …This paper reviews several traditions in economic research on preferences as well as research on personality traits in … personality psychology and lists challenges in both fields. We discuss challenges regarding the measurement of preferences and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011686255
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How relevant are economic preferences and personality traits for individual sustainable investment behavior? : a framed field experiment
Gutsche, Gunnar; Wetzel, Heike; Ziegler, Andreas - 2020 - Preliminary version
financial decision makers in German households. Thus, we provide a new approach to elicit preferences for SRI. We further extend … the set of potential determinants of SRI and consider all economic preferences according to Falk et al. (2018) and the Big …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421633
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317623
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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
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 criminology. We find that economic preferences, personality traits, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235856
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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
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 criminology. We find that economic preferences, personality traits, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010237753
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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
selection bias. This is especially relevant in light of the research about the influence of personality traits on economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487253