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110 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15486
Personality Traits, Remote Work and Productivity
Nicolas Gavoille, Mihails Hazans
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15421
Effects of Extending Paid Parental Leave on Children's Socio-Emotional Skills and Well-Being in Adolescence
Mikkel Aagaard Houmark, Cecilie Marie Løchte Jørgensen, Ida Lykke Kristiansen, Miriam Gensowski
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15275
Strategic Complexity and the Value of Thinking
David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15257
Peers Affect Personality Development
Xiaoyue Shan, Ulf Zölitz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15137
No Evidence That Siblings' Gender Affects Personality across Nine Countries
Thomas Dudek, Anne Ardila Brenøe, Jan Feld, Julia Rohrer
forthcoming in: Psychological Science
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15012
Fathering Daughters and Personality
Max van Lent
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14971
Working for Nothing: Personality and Time Allocation in the UK
Marina Della Giusta, Sarah Jewell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14920
The Predictive Power of Self-Control for Life Outcomes
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 197, 725-744
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14807
Many Rivers to Cross: Social Identity, Cognition and Labour Mobility in Rural India
Sébastien Michiels, Christophe Jalil Nordman, Suneha Seetahul
published in: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2021, 697(1), 66–80
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14669
COVID-19 Spread in Germany from a Regional Perspective
Olaf Hübler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14118
Personality and Public Sector Employment
Terhi Maczulskij, Jutta Viinikainen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13894
Big Five Personality Traits and Sex
Uwe Jirjahn, Martha Ottenbacher
revised version forthcoming in: Journal of Population Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13872
Own Motivation, Peer Motivation, and Educational Success
Jan Bietenbeck
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13809
Whoever You Want Me to Be: Personality and Incentives
Andrew McGee, Peter McGee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13733
Do Recruiters Select Workers with Different Personality Traits for Different Tasks? A Discrete Choice Experiment
Caroline Wehner, Andries de Grip, Harald Pfeifer
published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102186
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13582
The Role of Beliefs in Long Sickness Absence: Experimental Evidence from a Psychological Intervention
Gabriel Pons Rotger, Michael Rosholm
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13515
Social Identity, Behavior, and Personality: Evidence from India
Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Smriti Sharma, Saurabh Singhal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13473
Does Sibling Gender Affect Personality Traits?
Bart H.H. Golsteyn, Cécile A. J. Magnée
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13378
Inequality in Personality over the Life Cycle
Miriam Gensowski, Mette Gørtz, Stefanie Schurer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13342
Are Personality Traits Really Fixed and Does It Matter?
Steven Stillman, Malathi Velamuri
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13322
The Interaction Between Personality and Health Policy: Empirical Evidence from the UK Smoking Bans
Cecily Josten, Grace Lordan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13303
Are Economists' Preferences Psychologists' Personality Traits? A Structural Approach
Tomáš Jagelka
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12742
What Makes an Employer?
Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
revised version published as 'Personality characteristics and the decision to hire' in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2022, 31 (3), 736-761
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12597
Personal Attitudes, Job Characteristics and Health
Lutz Bellmann, Olaf Hübler
published as 'Personality traits, working conditions and health: an empirical analysis based on the German Linked Personnel Panel, 2013 - 2017 ' in: Review of Managerial Science, 2022, 16, 283 - 318
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12488
Self-Control: Determinants, Life Outcomes and Intergenerational Implications
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
updated version published as 'The Predictive Power of Self-Control for Life Outcomes' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 197, 725-744
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12444
Personality Traits, Migration Intentions, and Cultural Distance
Didier Fouarge, Merve Nezihe Özer, Philipp K. Seegers
published in: Papers in Regional Science, 98(6), 2425-2454.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11881
Personality Traits and Household Consumption Choices
Lucia Mangiavacchi, Luca Piccoli, Chiara Rapallini
published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 2021, 21 (2), 433-468
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11880
Prediction Based on Entrepreneurship-Prone Personality Profiles: Sometimes Worse Than the Toss of a Coin
Alexander Konon, Alexander S. Kritikos
published in: Small Business Economics, 2019, 53 (1), 1–20
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11756
Behind Every High Earning Man Is a Conscientious Woman: A Study of the Impact of Spousal Personality on Wages
Susan L. Averett, Cynthia Bansak, Julie K. Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11578
Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills, Hiring Channels, and Wages in Bangladesh
Anne Hilger, Christophe Jalil Nordman, Leopold Sarr
forthcoming as 'Which Skills Matter for What Type of Worker? Cognitive Skills, Personality Traits, Hiring Channels, and Wages in Bangladesh', in: Indian Journal of Human Development, 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11566
The Effect of Religiosity on Adolescent Risky Behaviors
Silvia Mendolia, Alfredo R. Paloyo, Ian Walker
published in as 'Intrinsic Religiosity, Personality Traits, and Adolescent Risky Behaviors' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2019, 19 (3), 1-16
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11449
Survey Item-Response Behavior as an Imperfect Proxy for Unobserved Ability: Theory and Application
Sonja C. de New, Stefanie Schurer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11414
Is Personality Endogenous? Evidence from Ireland
Irene Mosca, Robert E. Wright
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11213
Socioemotional Skills, Education, and Health-Related Outcomes of High-Ability Individuals
Peter A. Savelyev, Kegon T.K. Tan
forthcoming in: American Journal of Health Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11044
Gender Differences in the Development of Other-Regarding Preferences
Katrin John, Stephan L. Thomsen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10701
Cognitive, Socioemotional and Behavioral Returns to College Quality
Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Smriti Sharma, Saurabh Singhal
Forthcoming as 'Effects of Peers and Rank on Cognition, Preferences, and Personality' in: Review of Economics and Statistics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10672
Occupation and Gender
Patricia Cortes, Jessica Pan
published in: Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, 2018
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10563
Does Birth Spacing Affect Personality?
Bart H.H. Golsteyn, Cécile A. J. Magnée
published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 60, 92-108
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10562
Challenges in Research on Preferences and Personality Traits: Measurement, Stability, and Inference
Bart H.H. Golsteyn, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 60, 1-6.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10561
Involuntary Job Loss and Changes in Personality Traits
Silke Anger, Georg Camehl, Frauke Peter
published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 60, 71-91,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10560
Born to Lead? The Effect of Birth Order on Non-Cognitive Abilities
Sandra E. Black, Erik Grönqvist, Björn Öckert
forthcoming in: Review of Economics and Statistics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10538
Origins of Adulthood Personality: The Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences
Jason M. Fletcher, Stefanie Schurer
forthcoming in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2017, 17(2).
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10518
Using Response Times to Measure Strategic Complexity and the Value of Thinking in Games
David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10407
Locus of Control and Investment in Risky Assets
Nicolás Salamanca, Andries de Grip, Didier Fouarge, Raymond Montizaan
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 177, 548-568
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10397
On the Interpretation of Non-Cognitive Skills: What Is Being Measured and Why It Matters
John Eric Humphries, Fabian Kosse
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10359
Labor Outcomes during the Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood: The Role of Personality, Cognition, and Shocks in Madagascar
David E. Sahn, Kira M. Villa
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10356
What Grades and Achievement Tests Measure
Lex Borghans, Bart H.H. Golsteyn, James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries
published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), 2016, 113 (47), 13354-13359
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10337
Personality and Mental Health: The Role and Substitution Effect of Emotional Stability and Conscientiousness
Caroline Wehner, Trudie Schils, Lex Borghans
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9805
Born Entrepreneur? Adolescents' Personality Characteristics and Self-Employment in Adulthood
Jutta Viinikainen, Guido Heineck, Petri Böckerman, Mirka Hintsanen, Olli Raitakari, Jaakko Pehkonen
published in: Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2017, 8, 9-12
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9768
Homo Moralis: Personal Characteristics, Institutions, and Moral Decision-Making
Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Nora Szech
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