's psychometrically derived personality traits and status of their parents on the probability of attaining a white collar occupation over … human capital theory, but finds that personality and parental status also have significant effects on occupational outcomes … personality trait conscientiousness is large and rivals that of education. Finally, estimates of separate models for males and …

What can employers learn from personality tests when job applicants have incentives to misrepresent themselves? Using a … within-subject, laboratory experiment, we compare personality measures with and without incentives for misrepresentation …. Incentivized personality measures are weakly to moderately correlated with non-incentivized measures in most treatments but are …

of hireability and rated personality, similar in terms of rated taste to collaborate but worse in terms of rated direct …