This paper studies whether sibling gender affects personality traits. We use the idea that if parents decide to have a …-born sibling's gender and the first sibling's personality traits is causal. We employ longitudinal data from a large British cohort … 16), when controlling for among others family size, and when applying corrections for multiple hypothesis tests …

analysis of the effects of siblings' gender on adults' personality, using data from 85,887 people from 12 large representative … Five. We found no meaningful causal effects of the gender of the next younger sibling, and no associations with the gender … subsamples, our results suggest that siblings' gender does not systematically affect personality. …

analysis of the effects of siblings’ gender on adults’ personality, using data from 85,887 people from 12 large representative … Five. We found no meaningful causal effects of the gender of the next younger sibling, and no associations with the gender … subsamples, our results suggest that siblings’ gender does not systematically affect personality. …

We investigate whether the Big Five Personality Dimensions contribute to explaining gender and migrant wage gaps by … using a linked employer-employee dataset. We expand the scarce literature concerning personality traits and gender wage gaps … associations between the Big Five and wages. The magnitude of this relationship varies across the gender and the migratory status …

associations cannot be interpreted as causal. This is the first paper that studies the causal effect of a life event - the gender … - 2020) I find that having a first-born daughter instead of son increases fathers' extraversion. The gender of the first …

The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development … of boys may be more sensitive to family disadvantage than that of girls. Using the National Longitudinal Study of … produces a similar pattern of results. We conclude that focusing on gender differences in behavior in school may not lead to …

, education and personality skills do not always raise the family earnings of women in this cohort, as women with very high …

This paper studies how individuals believe human capital investments will affect their future career and family life … and family expectations help explain human capital choices. …