We show that parental socioeconomic status (SES) is a powerful predictor of many facets of a child's personality. The … facets of personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism that are important …'s initial conditions at birth, and family structure. Personality profiles that vary systematically with parental SES off er 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 …

entrepreneurs are different , e.g., with respect to personality traits, non-cognitive skills and risk preferences. Since most of the … process with and without usually unobserved personality characteristics and to examine the consequences for the estimated … neglecting personality traits in the program evaluation leads to slight over-estimation of the average treatment effects on the …