We investigate whether responses to the UK public places smoking ban depend on personality. Drawing on individual level … establish their overall effect on smoking outcomes, and how this differs by personality. We measure personality using the Big … Five personality traits. We are particularly interested in conscientiousness, given the evidence that it is a good proxy …

number of life events on the Big Five personality traits and locus of control. A subset of life events have large impacts on … then demonstrate that treating personality traits as fixed can lead to biased estimates of their relationship with …

There is growing evidence that personality traits are spatially clustered across geographic regions and that regionally … aggregated personality scores are related to political, economic, social, and health outcomes. However, much of the evidence … spatial data in psychological research. Specifically, we investigate the robustness of regional personality differences and …

number of life events on the Big Five personality traits and locus of control. A subset of life events have large impacts on … then demonstrate that treating personality traits as fixed can lead to biased estimates of their relationship with …

This paper provides evidence of a novel facet of peer effects by showing how peer personality affects educational … persistence of their peers. The personality peer effects that we document are distinct from other observable peer characteristics … and suggest that the personality traits of peers causally affect human capital accumulation. …

over the life course. While absolute stability has been generally rejected, the extent to which LOC and thus personality … the stated LOC is biased during unemployment but the underlying personality trait itself is not affected. …

Personality is a powerful predictor of central life outcomes, including subjective well-being. Yet, we still know … little about how personality manifests in the very last years of life when well-being typically falls rapidly. Here, we … investigate whether the Big Five personality traits buffer (or magnify) terminal decline in well-being beyond and in interaction …