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1 paper across 2 private calibration editions.

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    W35526CH · EDHuman-reviewed abstract summary
    Relating Cognitive Skills and Personality Traits to Economic Preferences: Decision-Making under Cognitive Shocks and Guessing

    Cesar Chavez Padilla, Shuaizhang Feng, James J. Heckman, Zhe Yang

    A structural model of children’s choices finds that measured psychological traits are more strongly related to decision noise and guessing than to risk preferences themselves.