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Accounting for individual-specific reliability of self-assessed measures of economic preferences and personality traits
Dohmen, Thomas; Jagelka, Tomáš - 2023
measurement error. This paper presents the first attempt at measuring both revealed and self-reported reliability of individuals …' answers on self-reports of latent characteristics. We show that measurement error on self-reports relevant to economists is … cross-sectional data. We demonstrate that it predicts revealed individual reliability over and above all measured …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249040
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Accounting for individual-specific reliability of self-assessed measures of economic preferences and personality traits
Dohmen, Thomas; Jagelka, Tomáés - 2023
measurement error. This paper presents the first attempt at measuring both revealed and self-reported reliability of individuals …' answers on self-reports of latent characteristics. We show that measurement error on self-reports relevant to economists is … cross-sectional data. We demonstrate that it predicts revealed individual reliability over and above all measured …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014374512
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235856
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Accounting For Individual-Specific Reliability of Self-Assessed Measures of Economic Preferences and Personality Traits
Dohmen, Thomas; Jagelka, Tomáš - 2023
measurement error. This paper presents the first attempt at measuring both revealed and self-reported reliability of individuals …' answers on self-reports of latent characteristics. We show that measurement error on self-reports relevant to economists is … cross-sectional data. We demonstrate that it predicts revealed individual reliability over and above all measured …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296771
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Predicting norm enforcement : the individual and joint predictive power of economic preferences, personality, and self-control
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2017
This paper explores the individual and joint predictive power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for individual norm enforcement behavior. More specifically, we consider economic preferences (patience and attitudes towards risk), personality traits from psychology (Big Five...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011686118
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Are economists' preferences psychologists' personality traits? : a structural approach
Jagelka, Tomáš - 2020
This paper proposes a method for empirically mapping psychological personality traits to economic preferences. Careful modelling of random components of decision making is crucial to establishing the long supposed but empirically elusive link between economic and psychological systems for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228205
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Are economists' preferences psychologists' personality traits? : a structural approach
Jagelka, Tomáš - 2020
This paper proposes a method for empirically mapping psychological personality traits to economic preferences. Careful modelling of random components of decision making is crucial to establishing the long supposed but empirically elusive link between economic and psychological systems for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270444
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Predicting norm enforcement : the individual and joint predictive power of economic preferences, personality, and self-control
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - In: European journal of law and economics 45 (2018) 1, pp. 127-146
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011979974
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Measurement error in earnings data: replication of Meijer, Rohwedder, and Wansbeek’s mixture model approach to combining survey and register data
Jenkins, Stephen; Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2021
Meijer, Rohwedder, and Wansbeek (MRW, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2012) develop methods for prediction of a single earnings figure per worker from mixture factor models fitted using earnings data from multiple linked data sources. MRW apply their method using parameter estimates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012485862
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Measurement error and farm size : do nationally representative surveys provide reliable estimates?
Holden, Stein Terje; Makate, Clifton; Tione, Sarah - 2023
We assess the reliability of measured farm sizes (ownership holdings) in the Living Standard Measurement Study …-classical measurement error is associated with a downward bias in the range of 20-30% in average and median farm sizes and an upward bias in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014575314