Lex Borghans

Maastricht School of Management — Netherlands

Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences

35h-index8.3kcitations336works2.32yr avg
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Research Topics

Labor market dynamics and wage inequality(89), Dutch Social and Cultural Studies(41), Education Systems and Policy(33), School Choice and Performance(28), Education in Diverse Contexts(28)

Publications336 total

Hypersensitivity to noise and light: A multifactorial framework of attention, personality, and mood
Current Psychology·2026Open Access
Sensory processing patterns in pediatric mild traumatic brain injury: A longitudinal study
Applied Neuropsychology Child·2025Open Access
Traditional and alternative scores in performance tests to measure executive functions: differential associations with children’s academic performance
Child Neuropsychology·2025Open Access
The importance of socio-emotional skills for multiple life outcomes and the role of education
Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Time Well Spent? The Role of Test Effort in Explaining Achievement Gaps
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025Open Access
The impact of noise exposure, time pressure, and cognitive load on objective task performance and subjective sensory overload and fatigue
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology·2024· 9 citedOpen Access
Hypersensitivity to Noise and Light: A Multifactorial Framework of Attention, Personality, and Mood
2024· 4 citedOpen Access
The impact of noise exposure, time pressure, and cognitive load on objective task performance and subjective sensory overload and fatigue
2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Sensory processing patterns in pediatric mild traumatic brain injury: a longitudinal study
2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Student characteristics and effort during test-taking
Learning and Instruction·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Math items about real-world content lower test-scores of students from families with low socioeconomic status
npj Science of Learning·2024· 7 citedOpen Access
Qualitative data on triggers and coping of sensory hypersensitivity in acquired brain injury patients: A proposed model
Neuropsychological Rehabilitation·2023· 14 citedOpen Access
Content bias in math testing: Items about money, food, and social interaction disadvantage students from low socioeconomic backgrounds
Research Square (Research Square)·2023· 3 citedOpen Access
Instructing children to construct ideas into products alters children’s creative idea selection in a randomized field experiment
PLoS ONE·2022· 7 citedOpen Access
Who Is Considered Gifted From a Teacher’s Perspective? A Representative Large-Scale Study
Gifted Child Quarterly·2022· 36 citedOpen Access
Instructing children to construct ideas into products decreases creativity in a randomized field experiment
2022
Track placement and the development of cognitive and non-cognitive skills
Education Economics·2021· 10 citedOpen Access
Creative idea forecasting: The effect of task exposure on idea evaluation.
Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts·2021· 19 cited
When academic achievement (also) reflects personality: Using the personality-achievement saturation hypothesis (PASH) to explain differential associations between achievement measures and personality traits.
Journal of Educational Psychology·2021· 39 cited
Personality traits, preferences and educational choices: A focus on STEM
Journal of Economic Psychology·2021· 49 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Bas ter Weel(20), James J. Heckman(10), Bart Golsteyn(9), Angela Duckworth(5), Bruce A. Weinberg(5), Andries de Grip(4), Huub Meijers(3), Ron Diris(3), Trudie Schils(3), Karien Coppens(3), Hans Heijke(3), Tim Kautz(2), John Eric Humphries(2), Loek Groot(2), Maria Jansen(2), E. de Neubourg(2), Ulf Zölitz(2), James Heckman(1), Anne C. Gielen(1), Erzo F.P. Luttmer(1)