Angrisani, Marco;
Cipriani, Marco;
Guarino, Antonio;
Kendall, Ryan;
Zarate-Pina, Julen;
(2024)
Noncognitive Skills at the Time of COVID-19: An Experiment with Professional Traders and Students.
Quarterly Journal of Finance
, 14
(2)
, Article 2440003. 10.1142/S2010139224400032.
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Abstract
We study the stability of non-cognitive skills by comparing experimental data gathered before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a sample of professional traders, we find a significant decrease in Agreeableness and Locus of Control and a moderate decrease in Grit. These patterns are primarily driven by those with more negative experiences of the pandemic. Other skills, such as Trust, Conscientiousness, and Self-Monitoring, are unchanged. We contrast these results with those from a sample of undergraduate students whose non-cognitive skills remain constant (except Conscientiousness). Our findings provide evidence against the stability of some non-cognitive skills, particularly among professional traders.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Noncognitive Skills at the Time of COVID-19: An Experiment with Professional Traders and Students |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1142/S2010139224400032 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1142/S2010139224400032 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author(s). Open Access since November 2024. This is an Open Access article published by World Scientific Publishing Company. It is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND) License which permits use, distribution and reproduction, provided that the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
| Keywords: | Field experiment, financial professionals, non-cognitive skills, trust, locus of control, big 5, self-monitoring, grit, COVID-19 |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Economics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10187948 |
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