The Returns to Cognitive Abilities and Personality Traits in Germany

By G. Heineck, Silke Anger. 2010

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and family background: evidence from sibling correlations (2016, unknown): “11Lang et al. (2007) conduct reliability analyses and find test–retest coefficients of 0.”
Individual determinants of work attendance: evidence on the role of personality (2013, background): “For example, the predictive power of personality traits was investigated with respect to occupational choice and wages (Nyhus and Pons, 2005; Heckman et al., 2006; Heineck and Anger, 2010), as a determinant of success in the workplace, and with respect to health and criminal activity (Almlund et al.”
Household Finances and the 'Big Five' Personality Traits (2014, background): “In contrast, the implications of personality traits for economic outcomes such as earnings and employment status have start d to attract the attention of economists (see, for example, Caliendo et al., 2011, and Heineck and Anger, 2010).”
Integrating psychological approaches to entrepreneurship: the Entrepreneurial Personality System (EPS) (2017, methodology): “…utilized in a variety of studies, for example in developmental and personal psychology as well as in economics (e.g., Cobb-Clark and Schurer 2012; Donnellan and Lucas 2011; Graham and Lachman 2012; Heineck and Anger 2010; Keyes et al. 2002; Lucas and Donnellan 2011, 2009; Turiano et al. 2012).”
Do smart parents raise smart children? The intergenerational transmission of cognitive abilities (2010, background): “Cameron and Heckman, 1993; Green and Riddell, 2003; Bronars and Oettinger, 2006; Anger and Heineck, 2010), which also holds when taking into account individuals’ background characteristics and non-cognitive skills (Heckman et al., 2006; Mueller and Plug, 2006; Cebi, 2007; Heineck and Anger, 2010).”
Locus of control and the labor market (2015, unknown): “They argue that researchers need to account for the changes in locus of control that may occur as a result of the ageing process (see also Heineck and Anger 2010) as well as think carefully about the nature of the error in the skill measures they use, adopting the appropriate estimation strategies…”
Two Economists' Musings on the Stability of Locus of Control (2011, background): “Empirical studies of the importance of non-cognitive skills for economic outcomes often go a step further and assume that these skills are not only stable, but are fixed over the relevant time frame (Heineck and Anger, 2010; Cebi, 2007; Semykina and Linz, 2007; Goldsmith et al., 1997; Andrisani, 197”
Unemployment duration and personality (2011, methodology): “Using the same information on the Big Five as in our study, Heineck and Anger (2010) find significant effects of personality traits on wages for Germany.”
The influence of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation on individuals' knowledge sharing behavior (2011, background): “The experiment was thus designed to assess the willingness of individuals to contribute ideas under two conditions: (1) reciprocity—a deeply held human behavioral trait (Schultz, 2006; Heineck and Anger, 2010), defined as the belief that current contributions to group meetings would lead to future r”
How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills (2013, unknown): “The importance of these skills for educational and labor market success has been widely recognized (e.g. Almlund et al., 2011; Heckman and Kautz, 2012; Heckman et al., 2006; Heineck and Anger, 2010).”
More than just test scores (2012, background): “In Germany, Heineck and Anger (2010) also found that a combination of cognitive and personality measures were related to earnings.”