Relying on theoretical insights from the Job Demand-Control model, which links
occupational characteristics to health, this paper provides the first causal evidence of the …

The past two decades have witnessed increased interest in the relationship between
personality and labor market outcomes, as well as the emergence of the Five-Factor Model …

This paper synthesizes recent research in economics and psychology on the measurement
and empirical importance of personality skills and preferences. They predict and cause …

Relevance Statement In recent decades, the number of large-scale surveys that have
included measures of the Big Five personality traits in their standard questionnaires has …

Character strengths and virtues have always been a central point of reference for pedagogy
and the philosophy of education. What character strengths and virtues are essential for the …

Personality development is related to life events that change social roles and environments.
Here, we provide an overview of the differences between personal and collective life events …

We provide a concise introduction to a household-panel data infrastructure that provides the
international research community with longitudinal data of private households in Germany …

We are the first to examine how parental unemployment experienced during early-, mid-and
late-childhood affects adult life satisfaction. Using German household panel data, we find …

We test the stability of locus of control, a measure that has been attributed substantial
explanatory power for economic outcomes since it depicts how much people believe in their …

Childhood sexual abuse is a prevalent problem, yet understanding of later‐in‐life outcomes
is limited due to unobservable determinants. I examine impacts on human capital and …