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

This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students' personality … and across states to identify the effect of schooling on students' Big Five personality traits and on their locus of … students and students from disrupted families showed stronger personality changes following the reform: they became more …

effects of certain personality traits (agreeableness, neuroticism and risk taking) across the wage distribution for full …

This paper investigates the influence of political regimes on personality, using the separation of Germany into the … differences between former GDR and FRG residents regarding important attributes of personality (particularly the locus of control …, neuroticism, conscientiousness, and openness). To understand the influence of the GDR's socialist regime on personality, we test …

economic preferences. Our results establish robust relationships between positional income concerns and the personality traits …-subject heterogeneity. We explore the prevalence and determinants of positional income concerns, investigating the role of personality and … preferences are significantly correlated with positional income concerns. …

month maternal reservation interest rate. -- time preferences ; impatience ; intergenerational transmission, field …

personality traits (Big Five, locus of control) on their adolescent and young adult children's traits with the effects of parental … personality traits. The finding that non-cognitive skills are not as strongly transmitted as cognitive skills, suggests that there … explain cross-country differences in socio-economic mobility. -- Cognitive abilities ; personality ; intergenerational …

by personality traits. With the 2002 to 2009 cross section of the Socio-Economic Panel for Germany (SOEP), it is … expected amount of such savings. Personality traits only seem to influence the retirement savings if the individual has scores … further away from the average of the specific trait. Additionally regressions are implemented that include the personality …

This paper investigates whether personality traits can explain glass ceilings (increasing gender wage gaps across the … regressions with wage gap decompositions to identify the effect of personality traits on wage gaps. The results suggest that the … impact of personality traits on wage gaps increases across the wage distribution in all countries. Personality traits explain …