This paper synthesizes recent research in economics and psychology on the measurement and empirical importance of … personality skills and preferences. They predict and cause important life outcomes such as wages, health, and longevity. Skills … analysis of human differences by providing anchored measures of economic preferences and studying their links to personality …

-maximizing recommendation on the basis of that signal. The individuals have identical preferences. The group makes a decision that maximizes the …

business and economic planning with interdisciplinary contributions from sociology, neurobiology and psychology. The field … provides new and economically relevant insights into the formation of preferences and expectations and associated misjudgments …

of humans in groups, drawing on behavioral game theory, psychology, and sociology. He emphasizes how other …-regarding preferences such as altruism and dutifulness matter for societies' prosperity, and analyzes the role of culture in the form of …