This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and performance in high school using …

This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and education and labour market … show that personality traits do affect education and employment choices. We test the robustness of our results using the … - perseverance) on the risk of youths being NEET – "Not in Education, Employment or Training". Thus, our focus is on early drop …

This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and performance in high school using … control for a rich set of adolescent and family characteristics and we find that personality traits do affect study choices … unobservables that determine test scores and subjects’ choices and the unobservables that influence personality.<br/> …

adolescents in order to understand their behaviors and their personality changes in the structure inherent in this ontogenetic …

significant effect of orphanhood on health. However, chronically poor children have worse health and education outcomes. Among … young children, the effect of maternal orphanhood on education is significantly more adverse than that of chronic poverty …

significant effect of orphanhood on health. However, chronically poor children have worse health and education outcomes. Among … young children, the effect of maternal orphanhood on education is significantly more adverse than that of chronic poverty …

progress. Maternal education and mental health, family income, and major adverse life events, are all significant in explaining …

. Regarding years of formal education attained in young adulthood, boys whose fathers die before adolescence suffer the most …

progress. Maternal education and mental health, family income, and major adverse life events, are all significant in explaining …

education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …-run effects are not mitigated by education. …