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IZA Discussion Paper No. 17941

Self-Selection into Health Professions

Alessandro Fedele, Mirco Tonin, Daniel Wiesen

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 online in: Journal of Development Studies, 2 February 2025

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. 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

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. 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. 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. 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 forthcoming in: International Labour Review, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15012

Fathering Daughters and Personality

Max van Lent

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. 14669

COVID-19 Spread in Germany from a Regional Perspective

Olaf Hübler

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. 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. 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. 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. 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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12488

Self-Control: Determinants, Life Outcomes and Intergenerational Implications

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

updated version published as 'The Predictive Power of Self-Control for Life Outcomes' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 197, 725-744

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12444

Personality Traits, Migration Intentions, and Cultural Distance

Didier Fouarge, Merve Nezihe Özer, Philipp K. Seegers

published in: Papers in Regional Science, 98(6), 2425-2454.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11881

Personality Traits and Household Consumption Choices

Lucia Mangiavacchi, Luca Piccoli, Chiara Rapallini

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 2021, 21 (2), 433-468

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11578

Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills, Hiring Channels, and Wages in Bangladesh

Anne Hilger, Christophe Jalil Nordman, Leopold Sarr

published as 'Which Skills Matter for What Type of Worker? Cognitive Skills, Personality Traits, Hiring Channels, and Wages in Bangladesh', in: Indian Journal of Human Development, 2022, 16 (2), 219-247.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11449

Survey Item-Response Behavior as an Imperfect Proxy for Unobserved Ability: Theory and Application

Sonja C. de New, Stefanie Schurer

published in: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2023, 41 (1), 197-212

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11414

Is Personality Endogenous? Evidence from Ireland

Irene Mosca, Robert E. Wright

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11044

Gender Differences in the Development of Other-Regarding Preferences

Katrin John, Stephan L. Thomsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10672

Occupation and Gender

Patricia Cortes, Jessica Pan

published in: Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10563

Does Birth Spacing Affect Personality?

Bart H.H. Golsteyn, Cécile A. J. Magnée

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 60, 92-108

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10562

Challenges in Research on Preferences and Personality Traits: Measurement, Stability, and Inference

Bart H.H. Golsteyn, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 60, 1-6.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10561

Involuntary Job Loss and Changes in Personality Traits

Silke Anger, Georg Camehl, Frauke Peter

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 60, 71-91,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10538

Origins of Adulthood Personality: The Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences

Jason M. Fletcher, Stefanie Schurer

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2017, 17(2), 20150212

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10407

Locus of Control and Investment in Risky Assets

Nicolás Salamanca, Andries de Grip, Didier Fouarge, Raymond Montizaan

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 177, 548-568

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10356

What Grades and Achievement Tests Measure

Lex Borghans, Bart H.H. Golsteyn, James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries

published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), 2016, 113 (47), 13354-13359

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9765

Eliciting Risk Preferences: Firefighting in the Field

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Smriti Sharma, Saurabh Singhal

published as 'Internal and external validity: Comparing two simple risk elicitation tasks' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2019, 81, 39 - 46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9403

Beyond Qualifications: Returns to Cognitive and Socio-Emotional Skills in Colombia

Pablo A. Acosta, Noel Muller, Miguel Sarzosa

published as 'Adults' Cognitive and Socioemotional Skills and Their Labor Market Outcomes in Colombia' in: Revista de Economia del Rosario, 2020, 23 (1), 109-148.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9334

Individual Poverty Paths and the Stability of Control-Perception

Hendrik Thiel, Stephan L. Thomsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9318

Charitable Behaviour and the Big Five Personality Traits: Evidence from UK Panel Data

Sarah Brown, Karl Taylor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9132

Cognitive, Non-Cognitive Skills and Gender Wage Gaps: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data in Bangladesh

Christophe Jalil Nordman, Leopold Sarr, Smriti Sharma

published as 'Skills, Personality Traits and Gender Wage Gaps: Evidence from Bangladesh' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2019, 71(3), 687-708

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8873

Do Universities Shape Their Students' Personality?