I study how motivation shapes own and peers' educational success. Using data from Project STAR, I find that academic … motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test … motivation does not affect longer-term educational success, likely because it does not change own motivation. …

I examine the effects of cognitive ability and personality traits on college graduation in a recent cohort of young … background groups in the personality traits that predict successful completion of college, particularly for men. The implications …

This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and health behaviours using a large … adolescent and family characteristics and we find that personality traits do affect health behaviours. In particular, individuals …

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 …

measured into underlying personality traits and economic preferences. We demonstrate that the construction of the non …

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 …

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

, parental employment, and marital status. We also control for information on personality traits, such as work ethic, self … health behaviors, whatever their combination of personality traits. These effects are robust to separate estimations for boys …