%0 Report %A Budría, Santiago %A Betancourt-Odio, Alejandro %A Wirth, Eszter %T Does Internal Locus of Control Get You Out of Homelessness? %D 2023 %8 2023 Jun %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) %C Bonn %7 IZA Discussion Paper %N 16242 %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16242 %X This paper examines the role of internal locus of control in shaping transitions into homelessness. The data is taken from a longitudinal Australian dataset drawn from a sample of vulnerable individuals. The results, based on a Wooldridge Conditional Maximum Likelihood (WCML) estimator, show that individuals high in internal locus of control are significantly less likely to enter a homeless episode. %K locus of control %K homelessness %K dynamic probit model