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The Right Stuff? Personality and Entrepreneurship
Hamilton, Barton H. - 2018
We construct a structural model of entry into self-employment to evaluate the impact of policies supporting entrepreneurship. Previous work has recognized that workers may opt for self-employment due to the non-pecuniary benefits of running a business and not necessarily because they are good at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480659
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Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs : A Review of Recent Literature
Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2017
We review the extensive literature since 2000 on the personality traits of entrepreneurs. We first consider baseline personality traits like the Big-5 model, self-efficacy and innovativeness, locus of control, and the need for achievement. We then consider risk attitudes and goals and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453616
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The Economic Approach to Personality, Character and Virtue
Heckman, James J.; Galaty, Bridget; Tian, Haihan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This chapter presents an economic approach to character and personality traits with an application to the study of virtue. Economists interpret psychological traits, including character traits and virtue, as strategies that shape responses to situations (actions) determined by underlying...
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The Caloric Costs of Culture : Evidence from Indian Migrants
Atkin, David - 2013
inter-state migrants within India consume fewer calories per Rupee of food expenditure compared to their non … on culture: that migrants make nutritionally-suboptimal food choices due to cultural preferences for the traditional … foods of their origin states. First, I focus on the preferences themselves and document that migrants bring their origin …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459467
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Family Ties and Political Participation
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2009
We establish an inverse relationship between family ties and political participation, such that the more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is one's civic engagment and political participation. We also show that strong family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463234
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Culture, Context, and the Taste for Redistribution
Luttmer, Erzo F.P. - 2008
Is culture an important determinant of preferences for redistribution? To separate the effect of culture from the effect of the economic and institutional environment ("context"), we relate immigrants' preferences for redistribution to the average preference in their birth countries, controlling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464381
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Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance
Figlio, David - 2016
We use remarkable population-level administrative education and birth records from Florida to study the role of Long-Term Orientation on the educational attainment of immigrant students living in the US. Controlling for the quality of schools and individual characteristics, students from...
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Changes in International Immigration and Internal Native Mobility after Covid-19 in the US
Peri, Giovanni; Zaiour, Reem - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
From the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic to late 2021, international immigration flows to the US decreased significantly. We document the timing and the characteristics of these significant changes in flows, their evolution until late 2022 and their geographic and sector distribution. We...
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National Borders, Trade and Migration
Helliwell, John F. - 1997
The paper first extends and reconciles recent estimates of the strikingly large effect of national borders on trade patterns. Estimates comparing trade among Canadian provinces with that between Canadian provinces and U.S. states show interprovincial trade in 1988-90 to have been more than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472790
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Self-Selection and Internal Migration in the United States
Borjas, George J. - 1992
Within the conceptual framework of the Roy model, this paper provides an empirical analysis of internal migration flows using data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth. The theoretical approach highlights regional differences in the returns to skills: regions that pay higher returns...
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