important role in producing both personality and other non-cognitive skills and labor market outcomes is family background …, including genetic endowments. This paper is the first to use sibling differences to estimate the effects of personality on … ability, schooling, occupation, and other factors. Overall, the findings suggest that personality measures are important …

- personality traits, goals, motivations, and preferences that are valued in the labor market, in school, and in many other domains …

This paper systematically investigates whether different kinds of personality characteristics influence entrepreneurial … and further personality characteristics, which are more specifically related to entrepreneurial tasks, influence entry …

personality traits (Big Five, locus of control) on their adolescent and young adult children's traits with the effects of parental … personality traits. The finding that non-cognitive skills are not as strongly transmitted as cognitive skills, suggests that there …

applicants' intellectual ability, personality, and motivation. This allows the first experimental estimates of (i) the role of … their IQ, personality, and proclivity towards public sector work - i.e., we find no evidence of adverse selection effects on …

personality; in addition, a range of different models are explored and sub-population differences are examined. …

We test the robustness of the results of Cutler and Lleras-Muney (2010) on the role of personality in explaining the … education-health gradient by using alternative measures of child personality available in the National Child Development Study …. We show that, alternatively to the authors conclusions, personality contributes to the education-health gradient to an …

The human personality predicts a wide range of activities and occupational choices - from musical sophistication to … entrepreneurial careers. However, which method should be applied if information on personality traits is used for prediction and …