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Neel Sagar

Personality mismatch and the well-being of labour

Unemployment has been shown to have a strong negative impact on an individual's subjective well-being. I hypothesise that even the employed suffer a reduction in well-being, when there is a mismatch between a worker's personality traits and ‘ideal' traits required for their job. I show that worker well-being is substantially lower among individuals whose personalities are poorly matched to the requirements of their job. Furthermore, mismatch is associated with lower well-being even when job satisfaction is accounted for, suggesting that being mismatched in personality may have welfare implications outside the work environment.

Andis Sofianos

Higher Intelligence Groups Have Higher Cooperation Rates in the Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma

Intelligence affects the social outcomes of groups. A systematic study of the link is provided in an experiment where two groups of subjects with different levels of intelligence, but otherwise similar, play a repeated prisoner's dilemma. Initial cooperation rates are similar, but increase in the groups with higher intelligence to reach almost full cooperation, while they decline in the groups with lower intelligence. Cooperation of higher intelligence subjects is payoff sensitive and not automatic: in a treatment with lower continuation probability there is no difference between different intelligence groups.