Little is known about the genetic architecture of traits affecting educational attainment other
than cognitive ability. We used genomic structural equation modeling and prior genome …

Personality traits predict important life outcomes, such as success in love and work life, well-
being, health, and longevity. Given these positive relations to important outcomes …

Intelligence quotient (IQ), grades, and scores on achievement tests are widely used as
measures of cognition, but the correlations among them are far from perfect. This paper uses …

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Policy makers who care about well‐being need a recursive model of how adult life‐
satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through …

During the last decade knowledge about human behavior from psychology and sociology
has enhanced the field of economics of education. By now research recognizes cognitive …

Almost 20 years after McKinsey introduced the idea of a war for talent, technology is
disrupting the talent identification industry. From smartphone profiling apps to workplace big …

Expressed personality traits can play a pivotal role in convincing investors in crowdfunding.
Our study answers the research question: What is the current body of knowledge regarding …

Empirical studies of non‐cognitive skills often rely on the assumption that these skills are
stable over time. We analyse the change in a specific non‐cognitive skill, that is locus of …

Recent experimental studies suggest that risk aversion is negatively related to cognitive
ability. In this paper we report evidence that this relation may be spurious. We recruit a large …