TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Gensowski, Miriam
AU  - Gørtz, Mette
AU  - Schurer, Stefanie
        TI  - Inequality in Personality over the Life Cycle
        PY  - 2020/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 13378
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13378
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - gender gap
KW  - life cycle dynamics
KW  - Big Five facets
KW  - personality traits
KW  - socio-emotional skills
KW  - inequality
KW  - intergenerational transmission
        ER  -