Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Magnée, Cécile A. J. - 2020
This paper studies whether sibling gender affects personality traits. We use the idea that if parents decide to have a …-born sibling's gender and the first sibling's personality traits is causal. We employ longitudinal data from a large British cohort … which is followed from birth onwards. The dataset includes personality traits at age 10 and 16. Our main result is that …