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136 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18086
Adolescent Core Self-Evaluation and Adult Interpersonal Trust: Evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study
Anna Adamecz, Hubert János Kiss
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17941
Self-Selection into Health Professions
Alessandro Fedele, Mirco Tonin, Daniel Wiesen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17832
The Effect of Compulsory Education on Non-Cognitive Skills: Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Antonia Entorf, Thomas Dohmen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17595
The Importance of Socio-Emotional Skills for Multiple Life Outcomes and the Role of Education
Barbara Belfi, Lex Borghans
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17482
Psychology of Debt in Rural South India
Arnaud Natal, Christophe Jalil Nordman
published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2025, 61 (7), 1042 - 1057
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17395
Skills and Earnings: A Multidimensional Perspective on Human Capital
Ludger Woessmann
published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2025, 17, 397-425
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17387
Timing of School Entry and Personality Traits in Adulthood
Anton Barabasch, Kamila Cygan-Rehm, Andreas Leibing
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17336
Nurturing the Future: How Positive Parenting Is Related to Children's Skills and Well-Being
Laura Breitkopf, Shyamal Chowdhury, Shambhavi Priyam, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17331
Teacher Personality and the Perceived Socioeconomic Gap in Student Outcomes
Giorgio Brunello, Clementina Crocè, Pamela Giustinelli, Lorenzo Rocco
published in: Economics Letters, 2025, 247, 112096
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17287
One Size Fits All? The Interplay of Incentives, Effort Provision, and Personality
Zvonimir Bašić, Stefania Bortolotti, Daniel Salicath, Stefan Schmidt, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17280
Personality, Weak Signals, and Workplace Relevant Morality
David L. Dickinson, David Masclet
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16945
Students' Grit and Their Post-compulsory Educational Choices and Trajectories: Evidence from Switzerland
Janine Albiez, Maurizio Strazzeri, Stefan C. Wolter
published online in: , 16 September 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16754
Who Makes It to the Top? Differential Rewards to Personality across Gender and Occupation in the UK
Cecily Josten, Grace Lordan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16711
Adversarial Economic Preferences Predict Right-Wing Voting
Thomas Buser
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16576
Demand for Personality Traits, Tasks, and Sorting
Vera Brenčič, Andrew McGee
published in: Elsner, B. and Polachek, S.W. (eds.), Big Data Applications in Labor Economics, Part A (Research in Labor Economics, 52A), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, 2024, 161-211
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16338
Dark versus Light Personality Types and Moral Choice
David L. Dickinson
published in: European Economic Review, 2025, 178, 105092
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16311
What Does Job Applicants' Body Art Signal to Employers?
Stijn Baert, Jolien Herregods, Philippe Sterkens
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 217, 742 - 755
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16300
The Education-Health Gradient: Revisiting the Role of Socio-Emotional Skills
Mette Gørtz, Miriam Gensowski
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 97, 102911
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16243
Medical Brain Drain – Assessing the Role of Job Attributes and Individual Traits
Marco Bertoni, Debdeep Chattopadhyay, Yuanyuan Gu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16224
The Anatomy of Competitiveness
Thomas Buser, Hessel Oosterbeek
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16147
Helping and Antisocial Behavior in the Workplace
Michael Haylock, Patrick Kampkötter, Michael Kosfeld, Ferdinand von Siemens
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16142
Donations and Unpaid Activities
Olaf Hübler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16125
Using Genes to Explore the Relationship of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills with Education and Labor Market Outcomes
Thomas Buser, Rafael Ahlskog, Magnus Johannesson, Philipp Koellinger, Sven Oskarsson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16083
Employers' Demand for Personality Traits
Vera Brenčič, Andrew McGee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16027
Accounting For Individual-Specific Reliability of Self-Assessed Measures of Economic Preferences and Personality Traits
Thomas Dohmen, Tomáš Jagelka
published in: Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 2024, 23, 399–462
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15985
Do Classical Studies Open Your Mind?
Giorgio Brunello, Piero Esposito, Lorenzo Rocco, Sergio Scicchitano
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15486
Personality Traits, Remote Work and Productivity
Nicolas Gavoille, Mihails Hazans
revised version published in: International Labour Review, 2025, 164 (3), https://doi.org/10.16995/ilr.18853
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15421
Effects of Extending Paid Parental Leave on Children's Socio-Emotional Skills and Well-Being in Adolescence
Mikkel Aagaard Houmark, Cecilie Marie Løchte Jørgensen, Ida Lykke Kristiansen, Miriam Gensowski
publishled in: European Economic Review, 2024, 170, 104880
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15275
Strategic Complexity and the Value of Thinking
David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse
published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (650), 761–786,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15257
Peers Affect Personality Development
Xiaoyue Shan, Ulf Zölitz
published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 28 January 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15137
No Evidence That Siblings' Gender Affects Personality across Nine Countries
Thomas Dudek, Anne Ardila Brenøe, Jan Feld, Julia Rohrer
published in: Psychological Science, 2022, 33 (9), 1574 - 1587
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15012
Fathering Daughters and Personality
Max van Lent
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14971
Working for Nothing: Personality and Time Allocation in the UK
Marina Della Giusta, Sarah Jewell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14920
The Predictive Power of Self-Control for Life Outcomes
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 197, 725-744
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14807
Many Rivers to Cross: Social Identity, Cognition and Labour Mobility in Rural India
Sébastien Michiels, Christophe Jalil Nordman, Suneha Seetahul
published in: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2021, 697(1), 66 - 80
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14669
COVID-19 Spread in Germany from a Regional Perspective
Olaf Hübler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14118
Personality and Public Sector Employment
Terhi Maczulskij, Jutta Viinikainen
published as 'Personality and public sector employment in Finland' in: Labor, 2024, 38 (1), 122-149
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13894
Big Five Personality Traits and Sex
Uwe Jirjahn, Martha Ottenbacher
revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36, 549 - 580
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13872
Own Motivation, Peer Motivation, and Educational Success
Jan Bietenbeck
revised version published online as 'Do Motivated Classmates Matter for Educational Success?' in: Economic Journal, 27 June 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13809
Whoever You Want Me to Be: Personality and Incentives
Andrew McGee, Peter McGee
published in: Economic Inquiry, 2024, 64 (3), 1268 - 1291
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13733
Do Recruiters Select Workers with Different Personality Traits for Different Tasks? A Discrete Choice Experiment
Caroline Wehner, Andries de Grip, Harald Pfeifer
published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102186
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13582
The Role of Beliefs in Long Sickness Absence: Experimental Evidence from a Psychological Intervention
Gabriel Pons Rotger, Michael Rosholm
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13515
Social Identity, Behavior, and Personality: Evidence from India
Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Smriti Sharma, Saurabh Singhal
published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2023, 59 (4), 472 - 489
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13473
Does Sibling Gender Affect Personality Traits?
Bart H.H. Golsteyn, Cécile A. J. Magnée
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 77, 102016
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13378
Inequality in Personality over the Life Cycle
Miriam Gensowski, Mette Gørtz, Stefanie Schurer
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 184, 46-77
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13342
Are Personality Traits Really Fixed and Does It Matter?
Steven Stillman, Malathi Velamuri
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13322
The Interaction Between Personality and Health Policy: Empirical Evidence from the UK Smoking Bans
Cecily Josten, Grace Lordan
published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2020, 38, 100899
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13303
Are Economists' Preferences Psychologists' Personality Traits? A Structural Approach
Tomáš Jagelka
published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 132 (3), 910–970
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12742
What Makes an Employer?
Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
revised version published as 'Personality characteristics and the decision to hire' in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2022, 31 (3), 736-761
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12597
Personal Attitudes, Job Characteristics and Health
Lutz Bellmann, Olaf Hübler
published as 'Personality traits, working conditions and health: an empirical analysis based on the German Linked Personnel Panel, 2013 - 2017 ' in: Review of Managerial Science, 2022, 16, 283 - 318
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