Can Money Change Who We Are? Estimating the Effects of Unearned Income on Measures of Incentive-Enhancing Personality Traits
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Keywords
noncognitive skills; personality traits; lottery winners; instrumental variables; unearned income;JEL classification:
- D3 - Microeconomics - - Distribution
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
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- NEP-NEU-2011-12-13 (Neuroeconomics)
- NEP-SEA-2011-12-13 (South East Asia)
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