Results and Discussion
This chapter examines the relationships between psychometric assessments and the entrepreneur's business performance (profits) and credit risk (default). Regarding the Big Five personality traits, extroversion is found to be strongly related to higher pro
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Bailey Klinger Asim Ijaz Khwaja Carlos del Carpio
Enterprising Psychometrics and Poverty Reduction
SpringerBriefs in Psychology SpringerBriefs in Innovations in Poverty Reduction
Series Editor Stuart C. Carr
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Bailey Klinger • Asim Ijaz Khwaja Carlos del Carpio
Enterprising Psychometrics and Poverty Reduction
Bailey Klinger Entrepreneurial Finance Lab Cambridge, MA, USA
Asim Ijaz Khwaja Harvard Kennedy School Cambridge, MA, USA
Carlos del Carpio Entrepreneurial Finance Lab Cambridge, MA, USA
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Foreword: Innovations in Poverty Reduction
This Series The time has come for innovative social science to contribute more to poverty reduction. The 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are at risk from the global financial crisis and climate change inertia.1 There are calls for hitherto silent disciplines—work psychology being the leading example—to help translate this MDG “grand plan” into everyday human behavior.2 Just a
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