This paper explores the power of personality traits both as predictors and as causes of academic and economic success …, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of … preferences, constraints, and information. Evidence is reviewed about the "situational specificity" of personality traits and …

This paper reviews the problems and potential benefits of integrating personality psychology into economics. Economists … have much to learn from and contribute to personality psychology. …

This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and performance in high school using … control for a rich set of adolescent and family characteristics and we find that personality traits do affect study choices … subjects' choices and, the unobservables that influence personality. …

This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and health behaviours using a large … adolescent and family characteristics and we find that personality traits do affect health behaviours. In particular, individuals …

– personality traits, goals, motivations, and preferences that are valued in the labor market, in school, and in many other domains …

We show that socio-economic status (SES) is a powerful predictor of many facets of a child's personality. The facets of … personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism, as well as crystallized and fluid IQ. We …'s personality by documenting that many dimensions of a child's environment differ systematically by SES: parenting style, quantity …

important role in producing both personality and other non-cognitive skills and labor market outcomes is family background …, including genetic endowments. This paper is the first to use sibling differences to estimate the effects of personality on … ability, schooling, occupation, and other factors. Overall, the findings suggest that personality measures are important …

personality traits (Big Five, locus of control) on their adolescent and young adult children's traits with the effects of parental … personality traits. The finding that non-cognitive skills are not as strongly transmitted as cognitive skills, suggests that there …