There is an increasing economic literature considering personality. This paper provides an overview on the role of …. Based on the relevant literature from different disciplines, the common psychometric measures used to assess personality are … discussed. A recently proposed theoretical framework of human capital production takes personality explicitly into account. It …

There is an increasing economic literature considering personality traits as a source of individual differences in … disciplines, the common psychometric measures used to assess personality are discussed and critical assumptions for their … application are highlighted. We sketch current research that aims at incorporating personality traits into economic models of …

establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills – personality traits, goals, motivations, and … preferences that are valued in the labor market, in school, and in many other domains. Their predictive power rivals that of …

experiments and representative samples and find only low degrees of association between economic preferences and personality. We … different concepts to capture them. In this review we first analyze the extent to which economic preferences and psychological … concepts of personality - such as the Big Five and locus of control - are related. We analyze data from incentivized laboratory …

experiments and representative samples and find only low degrees of association between economic preferences and personality. We … different concepts to capture them. In this review we first analyze the extent to which economic preferences and psychological … concepts of personality - such as the Big Five and locus of control - are related. We analyze data from incentivized laboratory …