%0 Report
        %A Gensowski, Miriam
%A Gørtz, Mette
%A Schurer, Stefanie
        %T Inequality in Personality over the Life Cycle
        %D 2020
        %8 2020 Jun
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 13378
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp13378
        %X We describe gender and socioeconomic inequalities in the Big Five personality traits over the life cycle, using a facet-level inventory linked to administrative data. We estimate life-cycle profiles non-parametrically and test for cohort and sample-selection effects. We discuss the economic implications of the following findings: Women of all ages score more highly than men on all personality traits, including three that are positively associated with wages; Individuals with high own or parental education have more favorable traits except Conscientiousness; Over the life cycle, gender and socioeconomic gaps widen in Openness and shrink in Neuroticism, a trait associated with worse outcomes.
        %K gender gap
%K life cycle dynamics
%K Big Five facets
%K personality traits
%K socio-emotional skills
%K inequality
%K intergenerational transmission