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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 - 2014

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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Do Recruiters Select Workers with Different Personality Traits for Different Tasks? A Discrete Choice Experiment

Wehner, Caroline - 2020

This paper explores whether firms recruit workers with different personality traits for different tasks. For our analysis, we used data from a discrete choice experiment conducted among recruiters of 634 firms in Germany. Recruiters were asked to choose between job applicants who differed in...

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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 … effort and self-knowledge in generating measurement error and propose a simple model which rationalizes our findings …

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Challenges in Research on Preferences and Personality Traits : Measurement, Stability, and Inference

Golsteyn, Bart H. H. - 2017

personality psychology and lists challenges in both fields. We discuss challenges regarding the measurement of preferences and …

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Personality Traits and the Marriage Market

Dupuy, Arnaud - 2012

Which and how many attributes are relevant for the sorting of agents in a matching market? This paper addresses these questions by constructing indices of mutual attractiveness that aggregate information about agents' attributes. The first k indices for agents on each side of the market provide...

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Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance : A Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander - 2012

45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an international business program in the Netherlands. We exploit the …

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When the Baby Cries at Night : Inelastic Buyers in Non-Competitive Markets

Calzolari, Giacomo - 2014

We investigate empirically how sellers react to changes in the population of their consumers, identifying the effects of demand composition and demand size with limited information on costs. We show how pharmacists in Italy selectively increase the price of some products when they observe in...

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Personality Traits and Household Consumption Choices

Mangiavacchi, Lucia - 2018

In this paper, we test whether consumption choices are affected by personality traits and whether this impact is different for singles and individuals living in couples. To fulfill this aim, we test the impact of personality on preferences for different commodities using the German...

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Personality Traits, Remote Work and Productivity

Gavoille, Nicolas; Hazans, Mihails - 2022

The future of teleworking ultimately depends on its impact on workers' productivity and wellbeing, yet the effect of remote working on productivity is not well understood. This paper investigates the link between personality traits and workers' productivity when working from home. We exploit a...

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Household Finances and the 'Big Five' Personality Traits

Brown, Sarah - 2011

We explore the relationship between household finances and personality traits from an empirical perspective. Specifically, using individual level data drawn from the British Household Panel Survey, we analyse the influence of personality traits on financial decision-making at the individual...

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