This paper explores the power of personality traits both as predictors and as causes of academic and economic success …, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of … preferences, constraints, and information. Evidence is reviewed about the situational specificity of personality traits and …

We test the robustness of the results of Cutler and Lleras-Muney (2010) on the role of personality in explaining the … education-health gradient by using alternative measures of child personality available in the National Child Development Study …. We show that, alternatively to the authors conclusions, personality contributes to the education-health gradient to an …