@techreport{448af7d74b8445ed8060de6d0efc58bf,
title = "Inequality in Personality over the Life Cycle",
abstract = "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 sampleselection 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.",
keywords = "Inequality; socio-emotional skills; personality traits; Big Five facets; life cycle dynamics; gender gap; intergenerational transmission, inequality, socio-emotional skills, personality traits, Big Five facets, life cycle dynamics, gender gap, intergenerational transmission",
author = "Miriam Gensowski and Mette G{\o}rtz and Stefanie Schurer",
year = "2020",
month = jun,
day = "12",
doi = "10.2139/ssrn.3605362",
language = "English",
series = "IZA Discussion Paper",
number = "13378",
type = "WorkingPaper",
}