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Noncognitive skills in economics: Models, measurement, and empirical evidence
Thiel, Hendrik; Thomsen, Stephan L. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646605
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Noncognitive skills in economics: Models, measurement, and empirical evidence
Thiel, Hendrik; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299499
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Noncognitive skills in economics: Models, measurement, and empirical evidence
Thiel, Hendrik; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307839
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Noncognitive skills in economics: Models, measurement, and empirical evidence
Thiel, Hendrik; Thomsen, Stephan L. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008500712
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What are the priorities of bureaucrats? Evidence from conjoint experiments with procurement officials
Tukiainen, Janne; Blesse, Sebastian; Bohne, Albrecht; … - 2021
-making is still largely seen as a black box. We provide novel insights into the preferences of bureaucrats regarding their work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012498741
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Procurement design with loss averse bidders
Fugger, Nicolas; Gillen, Philippe; Riehm, Tobias - 2019
We show that it is beneficial for a buyer to conduct a multi-stage mechanism if bidders are loss averse. In a first step, we derive a revenue equivalence principle. Fixing the multi-stage structure, the revenue is independent of the chosen payment rule. Secondly, we introduce a simple two-stage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146978
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Impacts of parental health on children's development of personality traits and problem behavior: Evidence from parental health shocks
Morefield, Brant; Mühlenweg, Andrea M.; Westermaier, Franz - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283661
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Impacts of parental health shocks on children's non-cognitive skills
Westermaier, Franz; Morefield, Brant; Mühlenweg, Andrea M. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on significant changes in selfreported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010985651
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Impacts of parental health on children's development of personality traits and problem behavior: Evidence from parental health shocks
Morefield, Brant; Mühlenweg, Andrea M.; Westermaier, Franz - 2011
In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306004
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Impacts of parental health shocks on children's non-cognitive skills
Westermaier, Franz; Morefield, Brant; Mühlenweg, Andrea M. - 2013
We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on significant changes in selfreported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312882