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Some of the differences between teenage boys and teenage girls as students
14 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
Morning People Are Less Ethical at Night – HBR
20 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: economics of personality traits
Ideology and child-rearing
15 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in human capital Tags: child rearing, economics of personality traits, partisanship
The three laws of behavioural genetics
08 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: behavioural genetics, economics of personality traits, nature versus nurture
Creative Routines — Information is Beautiful Awards
27 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of education, entrepreneurship, human capital, labour economics Tags: creativity, economics of personality traits, entrepreneurial alertness
The Philippines is the world’s most emotional country. Singapore is its least.
18 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics Tags: culture and economic development, economics of personality traits
Since 2009, Gallup has been polling people in 150 countries and territories about their everyday emotional experiences.
The questions are things like, "did you smile or laugh a lot yesterday?", and "did you experience [enjoyment/physical pain/worry/sadness/stress/anger] during a lot of the day yesterday?"
Only 36 percent of Singaporeans reported experiencing either positive or negative emotions in a given day — making them the least emotional country in the world.
By contrast, the Philippines are the world’s most emotional country, with 60 percent saying they had either a positive or negative emotional experience on a given day.
HT: vox.com
A taxonomy of 24 libertarian types
22 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in liberalism, libertarianism Tags: economics of personality traits, expressive voting, ideologies, personality types
Why schools can’t teach character – Toby Young
13 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics Tags: behavioural genetics, economics of personality traits, Toby Young
…character traits are inherited, not taught.
I’m not talking about moral qualities, such as honesty, compassion and altruism. It may be that these can be cultivated.
I mean performance-enhancing virtues, like stick-to-it-ness and the ability to bounce back from defeat, what exponents of character education call ‘grit’.
There’s a growing body of evidence that these traits are largely hereditable, that is, encoded in our DNA. If you exhibit any of these qualities, it’s overwhelmingly likely that your parents did, too.
And insofar as a child’s upbringing has any impact on the emergence of these qualities, it’s the peers they associate with during adolescence that matter, not their teachers.
Occupy Wall Street protesters didn’t like what they found when they actually met the bottom 1%
06 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in labour economics, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: bottom 1%, economics of personality traits, Occupy Wall Street, poverty and inequality, top 1%
The Occupy Wall Street protesters had free food provided by kitchens staffed by volunteers.
These self appointed representatives of the bottom 99% didn’t appreciate brushing shoulders with the bottom 1 percent of the social stratum:
The Occupy Wall Street volunteer kitchen staff launched a “counter” revolution yesterday — because they’re angry about working 18-hour days to provide food for “professional homeless” people and ex-cons masquerading as protesters.
For three days beginning tomorrow, the cooks will serve only brown rice and other spartan grub instead of the usual menu of organic chicken and vegetables, spaghetti bolognese, and roasted beet and sheep’s-milk-cheese salad.
They will also provide directions to local soup kitchens for the vagrants, criminals and other freeloaders who have been descending on Zuccotti Park in increasing numbers every day.
To show they mean business, the kitchen staff refused to serve any food for two hours yesterday in order to meet with organizers to air their grievances, sources said…
Overall security at the park had deteriorated to the point where many frightened female protesters had abandoned the increasingly out-of-control occupation, security- team members said.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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