personality traits, affect selection into self-employment. We link these two lines of inquiry. The model we estimate captures … incorporate personality traits by allowing them to affect sector-specific earnings as well as preferences. The estimated model … reveals that the personality traits that make entrepreneurship profitable are not always the same traits driving people to …

specific personality traits and cognition on a sequence of labor market outcomes for a sample of Malagasy individuals as they …, labor market sectoral selection, and within sector earnings. The personality traits we examine are the Big Five Personality … personality, as well as cognitive test scores, affect these outcomes of interest, and that their impact on labor supply is, in …