TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Dudek, Thomas
AU  - Brenøe, Anne Ardila
AU  - Feld, Jan
AU  - Rohrer, Julia
        TI  - No Evidence That Siblings' Gender Affects Personality across Nine Countries
        PY  - 2022/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15137
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15137
        AB  - Does growing up with a sister rather than a brother affect personality? In this paper, we provide a comprehensive analysis of the effects of siblings' gender on adults' personality, using data from 85,887 people from 12 large representative surveys covering 9 countries (the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, Mexico, China, and Indonesia). We investigated the personality traits risk tolerance, trust, patience, locus of control, and the Big Five. We found no meaningful causal effects of the gender of the next younger sibling, and no associations with the gender of the next older sibling. Based on high statistical power and consistent results in the overall sample and relevant subsamples, our results suggest that siblings' gender does not systematically affect personality.
        KW  - sibling gender
KW  - economic preferences
KW  - personality
KW  - sibling sex
        ER  -