This paper demonstrates that structural factors can shape people's self-control. We study the determinants of adult … self-control using population-representative data and exploiting two sources of quasi-experimental variation …|Germany's division and compulsory schooling reforms. We find that former East Germans have substantially higher levels of self-control …

This paper demonstrates that structural factors can shape people's self-control. We study the determinants of adult … self-control using population-representative data and exploiting two sources of quasi-experimental variation …-Germany's division and compulsory schooling reforms. We find that former East Germans have substantially higher levels of self-control …

This paper demonstrates that structural factors can shape people's self-control. We study the determinants of adult … self-control using population-representative data and exploiting two sources of quasi-experimental variation …

This paper demonstrates that structural factors can shape people's self-control. We study the determinants of adult … self-control using population-representative data and exploiting two sources of quasi-experimental variation …-Germany's division and compulsory schooling reforms. We find that former East Germans have substantially higher levels of self-control …

We investigate the stability of self-control at the population level. Analyzing repeated Brief Self-Control Scale … scores, we demonstrate that self-control exhibits a high degree of mean-level, rank-order, and individual-level stability … over the medium term. Changes in self-control are not associated with major life events, nor are they economically …

We investigate the stability of self-control at the population level. Analyzing repeated Brief Self-Control Scale … scores, we demonstrate that self-control exhibits a high degree of mean-level, rank-order, and individual-level stability … over the medium term. Changes in self-control are not associated with major life events, nor are they economically …

The organizational self-control literature usually applies resource perspectives that explain self-control failure at … work by depletion of self-control resources. However, these perspectives neglect the role of self-control motivation. On a … daily level, we examine several self-control aspects (resources, motivation, demands, and effort) as predictors of a …