This paper analyzes how apprenticeship training, i.e., work-based secondary education, affects personality traits compared to full-time school-based vocational or general education. Employing an instrumental variable approach that exploits the regional differences in the relative weight of...

Using two datasets containing demographically representative samples of the Dutch population, I study how lifetime experiences of aggregate labor market conditions affect personality. Three sets of findings are reported. First, experienced aggregate unemployment is negatively correlated with the...

This study investigates the predictive power of self-control for individuals and their children using population representative data. We use the well-established Brief Self-Control Scale to demonstrate that people's trait self-control is highly predictive of their life outcomes. Higher...

This paper proposes a method for empirically mapping psychological personality traits to economic preferences. Careful modelling of random components of decision making is crucial to establishing the long supposed but empirically elusive link between economic and psychological systems for...

This paper proposes a method for empirically mapping psychological personality traits to economic preferences. Careful modelling of random components of decision making is crucial to establishing the long supposed but empirically elusive link between economic and psychological systems for...

We study the relationship between parenting style and a broad range of children's skills and outcomes. Based on survey and experimental data from 5,580 children and their parents, we find that children exposed to positive parenting have higher IQs, are more altruistic, open to new experiences,...

We study the relationship between parenting style and a broad range of children’s skills and outcomes. Based on survey and experimental data from 5,580 children and their parents, we find that children exposed to positive parenting have higher IQs, are more altruistic, open to new...

We study the relationship between parenting style and a broad range of children's skills and outcomes. Based on survey and experimental data from 5,580 children and their parents, we find that children exposed to positive parenting have higher IQs, are more altruistic, open to new experiences,...