education and personality traits. I identify a previously undocumented interaction between education and traits in earnings … generation, which results in important heterogeneity of the net present value of education. Personality traits directly affect … more educated men. Personality and IQ also influence earnings indirectly through educational choice. Surprisingly …

education and personality traits. I identify a previously undocumented interaction between education and traits in earnings … generation, which results in important heterogeneity of the net present value of education. Personality traits directly affect … more educated men. Personality and IQ also influence earnings indirectly through educational choice. Surprisingly …

'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 …

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 …

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 …