We study how children's socio-emotional skills and well-being in adolescence are affected by an increase in the … delayed children's entry into formal out-of-home care, we show that longer leave increases adolescent well …-being, conscientiousness and emotional stability, and reduces school absenteeism. The effects are strongest for children of mothers who would …

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 …

scores and measures of personality (locus of control, reciprocity, Big Five) for brothers and sisters. Using a Restricted …. Sibling correlations of personality traits range from 0.24 to 0.59, indicating that even for the lowest estimate, one fourth … intergenerational correlations are only able to capture parts of the influence of the family on children s cognitive and non …