This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students' personality … and across states to identify the effect of schooling on students' Big Five personality traits and on their locus of … and students from disrupted families showed stronger personality changes following the reform: they became more agreeable …

We provide the first joint evidence on the relationship between individuals' cognitive abilities, their personality and … set of measures of personality traits, namely locus of control, reciprocity and all basic items from the Five Factor … Personality Inventory. Our estimates suggest a positive effect of so-called fluid intelligence or speed of cognition on males …

This paper investigates the effect of education on fertility under inflexible labor market conditions. We exploit … exogenous variation from a German compulsory schooling reform to deal with the endogeneity of education. By using data from two … countries, we find that increased education causally reduces completed fertility. This negative effect operates through a …

We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to …

within-individual variation this quasi-experiment provides evidence on the role of education inmoderating the negative …