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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 …
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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 …
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inquire into the agents' preferences and to explain how they relate to the human genetic endowment and how they change over …
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of evolving consumer preferences that is molded in an evolutionary paradigm. The theory allows to better assess how …
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We consider a decision maker who enjoys choosing from a varied set of alternatives. Building on behavioral evidence, we propose testable axioms which characterize preference for variety, and provide a representation theorem. We go on to illustrate the potential effects of preference for variety...
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Growing interest in using personality variables in economic research leads to the question whether personality as … measured by psychology is useful to predict economic behavior. Is it reasonable to expect values on personality scales to be … predictive of behavior in economic games? It is undoubted that personality can influence large-scale economic outcomes. Whether …
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This paper discusses and illustrates identification problems in personality psychology. The measures used by … explained by personality variables. …
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more analogous future task is one that concerns intertemporal choice and time preferences, since these involve implicit …
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We model self-control conflict as a stochastic struggle of an agent against a visceral influence, which impels the agent to act sub-optimally. The agent holds costly pre-commitment technology to avoid the conflict altogether and may decide whether to procure pre-commitment or to confront the...
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parameters among persons, and in particular across genders, can be accounted for by differences in personality traits and traits …
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