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Better sexy than flexy? : a lab experiment assessing the impact of perceived attractiveness and personality traits on hiring decisions

Baert, Stijn; Decuypere, Lynn - 2013

In this letter we present a laboratory experiment to assess the relative and independent effect of perceived attractiveness and personality traits on hiring decisions. Our results indicate that attractiveness and conscientiousness, followed by emotional stability, are important drivers of...

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Whoever you want me to be: personality and incentives

McGee, Andrew D.; McGee, Peter - 2020

What can employers learn from personality tests when job applicants have incentives to misrepresent themselves? Using a within-subject, laboratory experiment, we compare personality measures with and without incentives for misrepresentation. Incentivized personality measures are weakly to...

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Do recruiters select workers with different personality traits for different tasks? : a discrete choice experiment

Wehner, Caroline; Grip, Andries de; Pfeifer, Harald - 2020

This paper explores whether firms recruit workers with different personality traits for different tasks. For our … favour more open, extraverted, and agreeable workers for interactive tasks. …

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Demand for personality traits, tasks, and sorting

Brenčič, Vera; McGee, Andrew D. - 2023

In job ads, employers express demand for personality traits when seeking workers to perform tasks that can be completed … with different behaviors (e.g., communication, problem-solving) but not when seeking workers to perform tasks involving … heterogeneity within occupations in the tasks mentioned. Workers may thus sort based on personality-derived comparative advantages …

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The short- and long-run effects of private law enforcement : evidence from university police

Heaton, Paul S.; Hunt, Priscillia E.; MacDonald, John M.; … - 2015

Over a million people in the United States are employed in private security and law enforcement, yet very little is known about the effects of private police on crime. The current study examines the relationship between a privately-funded university police force and crime in a large U.S. city....

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Screening for honesty

Ruffle, Bradley J.; Tobol, Yossef - 2014

We report the results of a field experiment on honesty conducted on 427 Israeli soldiers fulfilling their mandatory military service. Each soldier rolled a six-sided die in private and reported the outcome to the unit's cadet coordinator. For every point reported, the soldier received an...

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Can patience account for subnational differences in student achievement? : regional analysis with Facebook interests

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Kinne, Lavinia; Sancassani, Pietro; … - 2023

Decisions to invest in human capital depend on people's time preferences. We show that differences in patience are closely related to substantial subnational differences in educational achievement, leading to new perspectives on longstanding within-country disparities. We use social-media data -...

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Psychology of debt in rural South India

Natal, Arnaud; Nordman, Christophe J. - 2024

The relationship between personal debt and cognition has received limited attention, especially, in developing countries. This study focuses on India and examines the relationship between Big Five personality traits, cognitive skills (math, literacy, and Raven scores), and financial...

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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...

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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

This research estimates models of the importance of conscientiousness for socio-economic outcomes. We use measures of conscientiousness at age 16 to explain adult wages and other outcomes, such as crime, health and savings behaviour. We use several waves from the 1970 British Cohort Study. Our...

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