We describe gender and socioeconomic inequalities in the Big Five personality traits over the life cycle, using a facet … personality traits, including three that are positively associated with wages; Individuals with high own or parental education …

-emotional skills? Revisiting the literature, we find that the gradient is reduced by 30-45% by fine-grained personality facets and …. There are education-health gradients even within sibling pairs; personality facets reduce these gradients by 30% or more …

-emotional skills? Revisiting the literature, we find that the gradient is reduced by 30-45% by fine-grained personality facets and …. There are education-health gradients even within sibling pairs; personality facets reduce these gradients by 30% or more …

This paper provides evidence of a novel facet of peer effects by showing how peer personality affects educational … persistence of their peers. The personality peer effects that we document are distinct from other observable peer characteristics … and suggest that the personality traits of peers causally affect human capital accumulation. …

childbearing between socioeconomic groups raise concerns about child wellbeing in poor families and future inequality. This paper …