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Women Do Not Play Their Aces: The Consequences of Shying Away

Claussen, Jörg; Czibor, Eszter; van Praag, Mirjam C. - 2015

playing behavior consistent with women being more averse towards risk and competition. Moreover, we demonstrate how "shying …

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The Fundamental Properties, Stability and Predictive Power of Distributional Preferences

Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2023

Parsimony is a desirable feature of economic models but almost all human behaviors are characterized by vast individual variation that appears to defy parsimony. How much parsimony do we need to give up to capture the fundamental aspects of a population's distributional preferences and to...

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The Stability of Self-Control in a Population Representative Study

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Kong, Nancy; … - 2021

We investigate the stability of self-control at the population level. Analyzing repeated Brief Self-Control Scale … scores, we demonstrate that self-control exhibits a high degree of mean-level, rank-order, and individual-level stability … important. The stability of self-control is particularly striking given our study period (2017-2020) spans the onset of the …

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Two economists' musings on the stability of locus of control

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Schurer, Stefanie - 2011

Empirical studies of the role of non-cognitive skills in driving economic behavior often rely heavily on the assumption that these skills are stable over the relevant time frame. We analyze the change in a specific non-cognitive skill, i.e. locus of control, in order to directly assess the...

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The stability of big-five personality traits

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Schurer, Stefanie - 2011

We use a large, nationally-representative sample of working-age adults to demonstrate that personality (as measured by the Big Five) is stable over a four-year period. Average personality changes are small and do not vary substantially across age groups. Intra-individual personality change is...

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The Many Faces of Human Sociality: Uncovering the Distribution and Stability of Social Preferences

Bruhin, Adrian; Fehr, Ernst; Schunk, Daniel - 2018

There is vast heterogeneity in the human willingness to weigh others' interests in decision making. This heterogeneity concerns the motivational intricacies as well as the strength of other-regarding behaviors, and raises the question how one can parsimoniously model and characterize...

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The Stability of Big-Five Personality Traits

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Schurer, Stefanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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Two Economists’ Musings on the Stability of Locus of Control

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Schurer, Stefanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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

Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2017

personality traits, challenges regarding the stability of preferences and traits, and challenges when inferring causality …

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Heterogeneous Innovations and Growth Under Imperfect Technology Spillovers

Jo, Karam; Kim, Seula - 2024

We study how frictions in learning others' technology, termed "imperfect technology spillovers," impact firm innovation strategies and the aggregate economy through changes in innovation composition. We develop an endogenous growth model that generates strategic innovation decisions, where...

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