Identification Problems in Personality Psychology

Lex Borghans, Bart H.H. Golsteyn, James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries

NBER Working Paper No. 16917
Issued in March 2011

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This research was supported by grants from NIH R01-HD054702 and R01-HD065072; The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET); A New Science of Virtues: A Project of the University of Chicago; the American Bar Foundation; a conference series from the Spencer Foundation; the JB & MK Pritzker Family Foundation; the Buffett Early Childhood Fund; and the Geary Institute, University College Dublin, Ireland. The opinions expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of any of the funders, or of the National Bureau of Economic Research. We thank Tim Kautz for helpful comments. Additional information is presented in a Web Appendix, available at http://jenni.uchicago.edu/identification-problems/.

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