The Influence of Personality Traits on University Performance: Evidence from Italian Freshmen Students
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Keywords
Noncognitive skills; Personality traits; Educational attainment; Economic Psychology;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- D90 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2020-08-10 (Education)
- NEP-EUR-2020-08-10 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-HRM-2020-08-10 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
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