Beyond Correlation in the Study of Personality: __________________________ Previous Conferences __________________________ December 4 & 5, 2009 Cultivating Human Capital: Cultivating Human Capital: __________________________ May 8 & 9, 2009, Building Bridges Between Economics and Personality Psychology Building Bridges Agenda: __________________________ Complimentary Lecture May 7th, 2009: |
The Spencer Foundation & Institute for New Economic Thinking Conference Series on _________________ Beyond Correlation in the Study of Personality: Associations, Investments and Interventions University of Chicago Stuart Hall, Room 101 A meeting on the causal and predictive effects of personality and impact of associations, investments, and interventions. This is the third and final meeting of our series. We have sought to begin a dialogue between economists and psychologists on personality and other individual differences that causally determine academic, economic, social, and health outcomes. Towards this goal, we have developed a series of questions to be addressed at the conference by all speakers and discussants. Organizing Committee: Agenda
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| 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Breakfast | ||||
| 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM | Opening Remarks | ||||
| Angela Duckworth, James Heckman, and Brent Roberts |
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| Session 1 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM |
Conceptual Framworks for Defining and Measuring Personality | ||||
| - 2 hours - 40, 30, and 10 minute presentations |
"An Economic Model of Personality and Its Implications for Measurement" J. Heckman |
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| 30 minute discussion | |||||
| "Realism About Traits" | |||||
| D. Funder | |||||
| "Personality, It's More Than You Think: Exploring Temperament, Ability, Interests and Character" | |||||
| W. Revelle | |||||
| Discussion: D. Benjamin, S. Durlauf, B. Roberts (Chair) |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | Break | ||||
| Session 2 11:15 AM - 1:15 PM |
Overviews: Associations Between Personality and Outcomes | ||||
| - 2 hours - | Education: | ||||
| 10 minute presentations 20 minute discussion |
"The Relationship between Personality Traits and Success in Post-Secondary Education and Work" | ||||
| N. Kuncel | |||||
| "Maintaining (Locus of) Control? Assessing the Impact of Locus of Control on Education Decisions and Wages." | |||||
| P. Dovern-Pinger | |||||
| "Education and Preferences: Experimental Evidences from Chinese Adult Twins" | |||||
| J. Yi | |||||
| "Constructing Economically Justified Aggregates: An Application to the Early Origins of Health" | |||||
| R. Piatek | |||||
| Health: | |||||
| "The Education-Health Gradient" | |||||
| G. Conti | |||||
| "The Relationships Between Health and Cognitive As Well As Noncognitive Skills in Children" | |||||
| D. Schunk | |||||
| "Personality and Prediction of Mortality" | |||||
| D. Mroczek | |||||
| Labor Market Outcomes: | |||||
| "The Links Between Personality and Labor Market Outcomes" | |||||
| D. Cobb-Clark | |||||
| "The Predictive Power of Personality for Labor Market Outcomes: A Review and Suggestions for Future Research" | |||||
| T. Kautz | |||||
| Crime: | |||||
| "Personality and Crime" | |||||
| A. Agan | |||||
| Discussion: J. Heckman (Chair) | |||||
| 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM | Working Lunch | ||||
| Session 3 2:15 PM - 4:15 PM |
Biological Bases of Personality: Using Biology to Infer Causality |
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| - 2 hours - Two 30 minute |
"Critical Steps in Linking Genes to Brains to Behavior" | ||||
| presentations, | T. Canli | ||||
| one 45 minute | |||||
| presentation, | "Psychopathology, Personality and Genetics" | ||||
| 15 minute discussion | B. Krueger | ||||
| "Modeling Decision Making Under Risk Using Neurochemistry" | |||||
| S.H. Chew and R. Ebstein | |||||
| Discussion: B. Roberts (Chair) | |||||
| 4:15 PM - 4:30 PM | Break | ||||
| Session 4 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM |
Causality and Dynamics in the Study of Personality | ||||
| - 2 hours - 25 minute presentations |
"Some Implications of (Non-)ergodicity of Psychological Processes" | ||||
| 20 minute discussion | P. Molenaar | ||||
| "Dynamics of Skill Formation" | |||||
| F. Cunha | |||||
| "Causal Issues in Personality Psychology: Some Challenges from and for the Rubin and Campbell Perspectives" | |||||
| S. West | |||||
| "Econometric Causality" | |||||
| J. Heckman | |||||
| Discussion: M.B. Donnellan, D. Mroczek, R. Pinto, W. Revelle, B. Roberts (Chair) |
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| 6:30 PM - 6:45 PM | Break Before Conference Dinner |
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Day 2
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| 8:30 AM - 9:00 PM | Breakfast | ||||
| Session 5 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM |
What Do Grades, Achievement, IQ and Personality Tests Measure? | ||||
| - 30 minutes - | "IQ, Personality and Achievement" | ||||
| 20 minute presentation | L. Borghans, B. Golsteyn, and J.E. Humphries | ||||
| 10 minute discussion | |||||
| Discussion: A. Duckworth (Chair) | |||||
| Session 6 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM |
Relating Economic Preference Parameters to Psychological Measurement Systems | ||||
| - 1 1/4 hours - | "Personality and Preference Parameters" | ||||
| 20 minute presentations | M. Almlund | ||||
| 15 minute discussion | |||||
| "Causality, Stability and Measurement Issues with Reference to Economic Preferences and Personality" | |||||
| T. Dohmen and A. Falk | |||||
| Discussion: A. Duckworth (Chair) |
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| 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM | Break | ||||
| Session 7 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM |
Intervention Studies for Personality: Causal Effects and What They Mean |
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| - 2 hours - | "Can Work Alter Welfare Recipients' Beliefs?" | ||||
| 15 minute presentations | P. Gottschalk | ||||
| 15 minute discussion | |||||
| "Statistical Challenges of Imperfect Social | |||||
| Experiments: Cases of the Perry Preschool Program and the Carolina Abecedarian Study" | |||||
| R. Pinto | |||||
| "The Effects of Early Intervention on Human Development and Social Outcomes: Evidences from the Perry Preschool Program and the Carolina Abecedarian Study" |
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| S. Moon | |||||
| "Personality and Prevention in Public Health" | |||||
| B. Chapman | |||||
| "Can We Teach an Old Dog New Tricks? Cognitive training increases openness to experience in older adults" | |||||
| J. Jackson | |||||
| "Strategia: Increasing Self-Control in Children" | |||||
| A. Duckworth | |||||
| "Promoting the Social, Emotional, and Academic Learning of All Students" | |||||
| R. Weissberg | |||||
| 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Lunch and Roundtable Discussion | ||||
| "Taking Stock" | |||||
| A. Duckworth, J. Heckman, D. McAdams, | |||||
| B. Roberts (Chair) | |||||
