's psychometrically derived personality traits and status of their parents on the probability of attaining a white collar occupation over … human capital theory, but finds that personality and parental status also have significant effects on occupational outcomes … personality trait conscientiousness is large and rivals that of education. Finally, estimates of separate models for males and …

helps understanding heterogeneity in peer effects, but additionally provides a promising mechanism through which personality …

frequency of uncontrolled coping - emotional outbursts - as a function of an individual´s personality and environment. Outbursts …

than men (e.g., Gneezy et al.(2003), Niederle and Vesterlund (2007)). In this paper, we use personality variables to … understand the underlying motives of women (and men) to enter a competition or avoid it. We use the Big Five personality factors …

entrepreneurship literature has emphasised the important role of personality traits as predictors for start-up decisions and business … administrative-survey data allows us to incorporate usually unobserved personality measures in the evaluation and investigate their … that concerns about potential overestimation of programme effects in absence of personality measures might be less …

and average personality traits. …

Is there an entrepreneurial personality and does it appear early in life? We provide a new answer on this question by …