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Performance of young adults: The importance of different skills
Falch, Torberg; Nyhus, Ole Henning; Strøm, Bjarne - 2013
This paper uses teacher assessments at age 16 in Norwegian comprehensive schools to measure different types of skills. While we follow the literature and interpret test scores in Mathematics and Science as proxy for cognitive skills, we use a novel measure for another type of skills: Performance...
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The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2014
We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333448
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Peer Pressure and Productivity: The Role of Observing and Being Observed
Georganas, Sotiris; Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2014
Peer effects arise in situations where workers observe each others’ work activity. In this paper we disentangle the effect of observing a peer from that of being observed by a peer, by setting up a real effort experiment in which we manipulate the observability of performance. In particular,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328715
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Ethnic Divisions and Production in Firms
Hjort, Jonas - 2013
A body of literature suggests that ethnic heterogeneity limits economic growth. This paper provides microeconometric evidence on the direct effect of ethnic divisions on productivity. In team production at a plant in Kenya, an upstream worker supplies and distributes flowers to two downstream...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328862
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Timing is Everything: Evidence from College Major Decisons
Patterson, Richard W.; Pope, Nolan G.; Feudo, Aaron - 2019
People rely on their experiences when making important decisions. In making these decisions, individuals may be significantly influenced by the timing of their experiences. Using administrative data, we study whether the order in which students are assigned courses affects the choice of college...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018139
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Choking Under Pressure - Evidence of the Causal Effect of Audience Size on Performance
Böheim, René; Grübl, Dominik; Lackner, Mario - 2018
We analyze performance under pressure and estimate the causal effect of audience size on the success of free throws in top-level professional basketball. We use data from the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the seasons 2007/08 through 2015/16. We exploit the exogenous variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931987
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Timing is Everything : Evidence from College Major Decisions
Patterson, Richard - 2019
People rely on their experiences when making important decisions. In making these decisions, individuals may be significantly influenced by the timing of their experiences. Using administrative data, we study whether the order in which students are assigned courses affects the choice of college...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892140
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Choking Under Pressure - Evidence of the Causal Effect of Audience Size on Performance
Böheim, René - 2018
We analyze performance under pressure and estimate the causal effect of audience size on the success of free throws in top-level professional basketball. We use data from the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the seasons 2007/08 through 2015/16. We exploit the exogenous variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908661
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Intelligence Disclosure and Cooperation in Repeated Interactions
Lambrecht, Marco; Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini, Aldo; … - 2021
We investigate in a laboratory setting whether revealing information on intelligence affects behavior in games with repeated interactions. In our experimental design we communicate information on the cognitive ability of both players. We use three stage games: Prisoners’ Dilemma (PD) and two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799672
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Intelligence, Errors and Strategic Choices in the Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma
Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini, Aldo; Sofianos, Andis - 2020
in groups of subjects grouped according to their IQ, with those in combined groups. While in combined groups we observe … higher cooperation rates and profits than in separated groups (with consistent gains among lower IQ subjects and relatively … smaller losses for higher IQ subjects), higher IQ subjects become less lenient when they are matched with lower IQ subjects …
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