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What grades and achievement tests measure

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Heckman, James J.; … - 2016

Intelligence quotient (IQ), grades, and scores on achievement tests are widely used as measures of cognition, yet the … correlations among them are far from perfect. This paper uses a variety of data sets to show that personality and IQ predict grades … than IQ of a variety of important life outcomes. Both grades and achievement tests are substantially better predictors of …

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Same-sex role model effects in education

Gendre, Alexandra de; Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; … - 2023

We study same-sex role model effects of teachers with a meta-analysis and our own study of three million students in 90 countries. Both approaches show that role model effects on performance are, on average, small: 0.030 SD in the meta-analysis and 0.015 SD in our multi-country study. Going...

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Personality traits, self-employment, and professions

Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2010

We investigate the effect of broad personality traits' - the Big Five - on an individua's decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of self-employment varies considerably across professions, we...

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Charitable behaviour and the big five personality traits : evidence from UK panel data

Brown, Sarah; Taylor, Karl - 2015

This paper investigates the association between personality traits and charitable behaviour, namely donations of time and money, using data from Understanding Society, the most recent large scale UK household longitudinal survey. Due to the censored nature of the outcome variables, i.e. some...

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Life satisfaction, income and personality

Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini, Aldo - 2015

We use personality traits to better understand the relationship between income and life satisfaction. Personality traits mediate the effect of income on life satisfaction. The effect of neuroticism, which measures sensitivity to threat and punishment, is strong in both the British Household...

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Unobservable, but unimportant? : the influence of personality traits (and other usually unobserved variables) for the estimation of treatment effects ; conference paper

Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Mitnik, Oscar A. - 2014 - Preliminary version, this draft: February 28, 2014

A large and highly used number of treatment effects estimators rely on the unconfoundedness assumption ("selection on observables") which is fundamentally non testable. When evaluating the effects of labor market policies, researchers need to observe both variables that affect treatment...

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On the interpretation of non-cognitive skills : what is being measured and why it matters

Humphries, John Eric; Kosse, Fabian - 2016

Across academic sub-fields such as labor, education, and behavioral economics, the measurement and interpretation of non-cognitive skills varies widely. As a result, it is difficult to compare results on the importance of non-cognitive skills across literatures. Drawing from these literatures,...

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On the interpretation of non-cognitive skills : what is being measured and why it matters

Humphries, John Eric; Kosse, Fabian - 2016

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Training Contracts, Worker Overconfidence, and the Provision of Firm-Sponsored General Training

Hoffman, Mitchell - 2013

Training by firms is a central means by which workers accumulate human capital, yet firms may be reluctant to provide general training if workers can quit and use their gained skills elsewhere. “Training contracts” that impose a penalty for premature quitting can help alleviate this...

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Does Risk Based Job Choice Matter for Job Satisfaction? Evidence from the German Reunification Experiment

Ong, Qiyan - 2013

Income risk preferences have been shown to be important for job choices, yet may be less important than other parameters for long term job satisfaction. The authors test for the long-term impact of risk-based job choice using a natural experiment: Pre-unification East Germans chose jobs in a...

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