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Inequality in personality over the life cycle

Gensowski, Miriam; Gørtz, Mette; Schurer, Stefanie - 2020

We describe gender and socioeconomic inequalities in the Big Five personality traits over the life cycle, using a facet … personality traits, including three that are positively associated with wages; Individuals with high own or parental education …

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The education-health gradient : revisiting the role of socio-emotional skills

Gensowski, Miriam; Gørtz, Mette - 2023

-emotional skills? Revisiting the literature, we find that the gradient is reduced by 30-45% by fine-grained personality facets and …. There are education-health gradients even within sibling pairs; personality facets reduce these gradients by 30% or more …

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Opportunity and inequality across generations

Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2022

We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment, applying dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection. We show that the program is successful in increasing employment and reducing social assistance....

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Like mother, like child? : the rise of women's intergenerational income persistence in Sweden and the United States

Brandén, Gunnar; Nybom, Martin; Vosters, Kelly - 2023

We show how intergenerational mobility has evolved over time in Sweden and the United States since 1985, focusing on prime-age labor incomes of both men and women. Income persistence involving women (daughters and/or mothers) has risen substantially over recent decades in both Sweden and the US,...

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Like (grand)parent, like child? : multigenerational mobility across the EU

Colagrossi, Marco; D'Hombres, Beatrice; Schnepf, Sylke V. - 2019

This study shows that the intergenerational transmission of inequality in most of the 28 EU countries is higher than …

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Ethnic capital and class reproduction: comparing the impact of socio-economic status on children’s educational attainment across ethno-religious groups in Israel

Miaari, Sami H.; Khattab, Nabil; Kraus, Vered; Yonay, … - 2021

This article investigates the relationships between ethnicity, class, and prospects of educational success. For this purpose, we compared the effects of family socio-economic characteristics on children's educational attainment in four ethno-religious groups in Israel (Muslim, Christian, and...

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Parental assortative mating and the intergenerational transmission of human capital

Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2021

We study the contribution of parental similarity in schooling levels to the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment. We develop an empirical model for educational correlations within the family in which parental sorting can translate into intergenerational transmission, or...

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Peers affect personality development

Shan, Xiaoyue; Zölitz, Ulf - 2022

Do the people around us influence our personality? To answer this question, we conduct an experiment with 543 … personality development under the influence of peers. Consistent with the model - prediction, personality spillovers are … concentrated in traits predictive of performance. Students adopt personality traits that are productive in the university context …

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Intergenerational mobility in the land of inequality

Britto, Diogo G. C.; Fonseca, Alexandre; Pinotti, Paolo; … - 2022

We provide the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility for a developing country, namely Brazil. We measure formal income from tax and employment registries, and we train machine learning models on census and survey data to predict informal income. The data reveal a much higher...

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How does socio-economic status shape a child's personality?

Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; … - 2015

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 …

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