There is an increasing economic literature considering personality. This paper provides an overview on the role of …. Based on the relevant literature from different disciplines, the common psychometric measures used to assess personality are … discussed. A recently proposed theoretical framework of human capital production takes personality explicitly into account. It …

There is an increasing economic literature considering personality traits as a source of individual differences in … disciplines, the common psychometric measures used to assess personality are discussed and critical assumptions for their … application are highlighted. We sketch current research that aims at incorporating personality traits into economic models of …

This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits and female labor force participation. While … striking evidence that personality traits play a major role in explaining individual differences in school attendance and … school performance. However, comparatively little is known about how and which personality traits effect labor supply …

In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior … be more extraverted. -- Human capital ; health ; personality traits ; non-cognitive skills …