Do Social Resources Matter? Social Capital, Personality Traits, and the Ability to Plan Ahead.
Summary: This paper is motivated by growing interest in noncognitive skills and the fact that many, if not most, economic and social actions require agents to plan ahead. More specifically, we use unique data from the US, UK, and Italy to show that two major classes of social resource—personality an...
| Publicado en: | Kyklos Vol. 71; no. 3; pp. 343 - 374 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aug2018
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