There is a growing body of research emphasizing the advantages of teaching students
social and emotional (SE) skills in school. Here we examine the economic value of these …

This paper investigates the causal impact of mother's schooling on various outcomes of
adolescent development by exploiting the temporal and geographical variations in 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 …

Classic criminological scholarship emphasizes sibling correlations in delinquency, criminal
offending, and system contact. This foundational work, however, has mostly not translated to …

Unemployment has a strongly negative influence on well-being, but it is unclear whether it
also alters basic personality traits. Whether personality changes arise through natural …

Abstract Models of economic decision-making usually assume that personality is stable over
time. We assess the validity of this assumption over an eight-year time frame in adolescence …

Despite the renewed interest in youth volunteering in recent years, there remain major gaps
in our knowledge of its consequences. Drawing data from the National Longitudinal Study of …

This paper estimates the effects of personality traits and IQ on lifetime earnings of the men
and women of the Terman study, a high-IQ US sample. Age-by-age earnings profiles allow a …

While survey data supports a strong relationship between personality and labour market
outcomes, the exact mechanisms behind this association remain unexplored. We take …

This paper investigates whether personality traits play a significant role in the decision to
invest in energy efficiency in the residential sector. Using the data from the Understanding …