Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 10,818
Cover Image
Moving ahead by thinking backwards : cognitive skills, personality, and economic preferences in collegiate success
Burks, Stephen V.; Lewis, Connor; Kivi, Paul; Wiener, Amanda - 2014
power to predict (1) timely graduation (four years or less), (2) graduation in six years or less, and (3) final GPA. The … Agreeableness has a robust negative effect on both graduation outcomes, but not on GPA. Economic time preferences predict graduation … in four years, and GPA. Cognitive skill measures predict as expected if entered individually in a multivariate model, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246051
Cover Image
Moving ahead by thinking backwards : cognitive skills, personality, and economic preferences in collegiate success
Burks, Stephen V.; Lewis, Connor; Kivi, Paul; Wiener, Amanda - 2014
power to predict (1) timely graduation (four years or less), (2) graduation in six years or less, and (3) final GPA. The … Agreeableness has a robust negative effect on both graduation outcomes, but not on GPA. Economic time preferences predict graduation … in four years, and GPA. Cognitive skill measures predict as expected if entered individually in a multivariate model, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246768
Cover Image
Cognitive skills, personality, and economic preferences in collegiate success
Burks, Stephen V.; Lewis, Connor; Kivi, Paul A.; … - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 115 (2015), pp. 30-44
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401196
Cover Image
Moving Ahead by Thinking Backwards : Cognitive Skills, Personality, and Economic Preferences in Collegiate Success
Burks, Stephen V. - 2014
power to predict (1) timely graduation (four years or less), (2) graduation in six years or less, and (3) final GPA. The … Agreeableness has a robust negative effect on both graduation outcomes, but not on GPA. Economic time preferences predict graduation … in four years, and GPA. Cognitive skill measures predict as expected if entered individually in a multivariate model, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058320
Cover Image
Positional income concerns : prevalence and relationship with personality and economic preferences
Friehe, Tim; Mechtel, Mario; Pannenberg, Markus - 2014
This paper presents detailed evidence about who compares to whom in terms of relative income. We rely on representative survey data on the importance of income comparisons vis-á-vis seven reference groups, allowing us to exploit within-subject heterogeneity. We explore the prevalence and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010432342
Cover Image
Positional income concers : prevalence and relationship with personality and economic preferences
Friehe, Tim; Mechtel, Mario; Pannenberg, Markus - 2014
This paper presents detailed evidence about who compares to whom in terms of relative income. We rely on representative survey data on the importance of income comparisons vis-a-vis seven reference groups, allowing us to exploit within-subject heterogeneity. We explore the prevalence and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462097
Cover Image
Do preferences and biases predict life outcomes? : evidence from education and labor market entry decisions
Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Herz, Holger; Kosfeld, Michael; … - 2018
Evidence suggests that acquiring human capital is related to better life outcomes, yet young peoples' decisions to invest in or stop acquiring human capital are still poorly understood. We investigate the role of time and reference-dependent preferences in such decisions. Using a data set that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789211
Cover Image
Do preferences and biases predict life outcomes? : evidence from education and labor market entry decisions
Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Herz, Holger; Kosfeld, Michael; … - 2018
Evidence suggests that acquiring human capital is related to better life outcomes, yet young peoples' decisions to invest in or stop acquiring human capital are still poorly understood. We investigate the role of time and reference-dependent preferences in such decisions. Using a data set that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795216
Cover Image
Spite and Cognitive Skills in Preschoolers
Bügelmayer, Elisabeth; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2015
Although spiteful preferences play a crucial role in the development of human large-scale cooperation, there is little evidence on spiteful behavior and its determinants in children. We investigate the relationship between children’s cognitive skills and spiteful behavior in a sample of 214...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014176402
Cover Image
Autonomous Systems in Ethical Dilemmas : Attitudes towards Randomization
Bodenschatz, Anja; Uhl, Matthias; Walkowitz, Gari - 2021
Ethically, it is debatable whether we may program autonomous systems (AS) to actively impose harm on some to avoid greater harm for others. Responses to surveys on ethical dilemmas in the programming of self-driving cars have shown that people favor to impose harm on some people to save others...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249507