This paper explores the effects of a spouse's personality on earnings. We build on the growing literature spanning … economics and psychology that investigates how personality traits affect one's own individual earnings. In particular, several … of the big five personality characteristics (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness …

We investigate the influence of personality as measured by the Big Five personality scale on absenteeism using … socio-economic background characteristics along with a Big Five personality scale. Estimates of a Logit model and of count … estimates allow us to test hypotheses on the influence of the Big Five personality traits on work attendance. We find clear …

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 …

We investigate the influence of personality as measured by the Big Five personality scale on absenteeism using … socio-economic background characteristics along with a Big Five personality scale. Estimates of a Logit model and of count … estimates allow us to test hypotheses on the influence of the Big Five personality traits on work attendance. We find clear …