Current Research and Working Papers

 

Melissa A. Osborne Groves

Towson University

 

 

  

Bowles, Samuel, Herbert Gintis and Melissa Osborne Groves, eds.  2005.  Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success.  New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

 

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 Melissa A. Osborne Groves.  “How important is your personality? Labor market returns to personality for women in the US and UK.”  Journal of Economic Psychology 26(6) December 2005.  pp. 827-841.

 

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 Sheryl Ball, Nicole Crain, Melissa Groves, Mehrene Larudee, and Robert Rycroft.  “A Principal-Agent Problem and the Labor Market: A Classroom Experiment".  Revised and resubmitted at the request of the editors, Southern Economic Journal.

 

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 Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis and Melissa Osborne.  “Incentive – Enhancing Preferences: Personality, Behavior, and Earnings."  American Economic Review 91(2), May 2001.

 

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  Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis and Melissa Osborne. "The Determinants of Earnings: A Behavioral Approach."  Journal of Economic Literature 39(4), December 2001.

 

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 Melissa A. Osborne Groves.  “The Influence of Sex and Occupational Status on the Returns to Personality.”  Working Paper, Towson University Department of Economics. 2004.

 

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  Intergenerational Inequality Workshop at the Santa Fe Institute (October 19-21, 2001).  

 

 

 

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