entrepreneurship literature has emphasised the important role of personality traits as predictors for start-up decisions and business … administrative-survey data allows us to incorporate usually unobserved personality measures in the evaluation and investigate their … that concerns about potential overestimation of programme effects in absence of personality measures might be less …

Is there an entrepreneurial personality and does it appear early in life? We provide a new answer on this question by …

and the survival as an employer in the same direction, we show that none of the personality traits affect the two outcomes …

We study the effect of birth order on personality traits among men using population data on enlistment records and … ability and the Big Five personality traits. Finally, we find a significant role of sex composition within the family. Later …

specific personality traits and cognition on a sequence of labor market outcomes for a sample of Malagasy individuals as they …, labor market sectoral selection, and within sector earnings. The personality traits we examine are the Big Five Personality … personality, as well as cognitive test scores, affect these outcomes of interest, and that their impact on labor supply is, in …

preferences, and Big Five personality. We find that enrolling in a selective college improves only females' exam scores. Further …

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 …

This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and education and labour market … show that personality traits do affect education and employment choices. We test the robustness of our results using the … and observables that determine the outcomes and the unobservables that influence personality. …

We investigate whether responses to the UK public places smoking ban depend on personality. Drawing on individual level … establish their overall effect on smoking outcomes, and how this differs by personality. We measure personality using the Big … Five personality traits. We are particularly interested in conscientiousness, given the evidence that it is a good proxy …