Browsing Geary Institute Working Papers by Author "Borghans, L."

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The economics and psychology of personality traits

Borghans, L. ; Duckworth, Angela Lee ; Heckman, James J. ; Ter Weel, Bas (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-12-15)

This paper explores the interface between personality psychology and economics. We examine the predictive power of personality and the stability of personality traits over the life cycle. We develop simple analytical ...
Gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity

Borghans, L. ; Golsteyn, Bart ; Heckman, James J. ; Meijers, Huub (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2009-03-09)

This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing literature relating economic preference parameters to psychological measures by asking whether variations ...