Inequality in personality over the life cycle
Field | Value | Language |
dc.contributor.author | Gensowski, Miriam | |
dc.contributor.author | Gørtz, Mette | |
dc.contributor.author | Schurer, Stefanie | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-05T00:03:12Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-11-05T00:03:12Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | en_AU |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2123/26780 | |
dc.description.abstract | We document gender and socioeconomic inequalities in personality over the life cycle (age 18–75), using the Big Five 2 (BFI-2) inventory linked to administrative data on a large Danish population. We estimate life-cycle profiles non-parametrically and adjust for cohort and sample-selection effects. We find that: (1) Women of all ages score more highly than men on all personality traits, including three that are positively associated with wages; (2) High-education groups score more favorably on Openness to Experience, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism than low-education groups, while there is no socioeconomic inequality by Conscientiousness; (3) Over the life cycle, gender and socioeconomic gaps remain constant, with two exceptions: the gender and SES gaps in Openness to Experience widen, while gender differences in Neuroticism, a trait associated with worse outcomes, diminish with age. We discuss the implications of these findings in the context of gender wage gaps, household production models, and optimal taxation. | en_AU |
dc.language.iso | en | en_AU |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_AU |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organization | en_AU |
dc.rights | Copyright All Rights Reserved | en_AU |
dc.subject | Inequality | en_AU |
dc.subject | Personality | en_AU |
dc.subject | Big Five-2 Inventory | en_AU |
dc.subject | Life cycle dynamics | en_AU |
dc.subject | Gender disadvantage | en_AU |
dc.subject | Socioeconomic disadvantage | en_AU |
dc.title | Inequality in personality over the life cycle | en_AU |
dc.type | Article | en_AU |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.jebo.2021.01.018 | |
dc.relation.arc | CE140100027 | |
dc.relation.arc | CE200100025 | |
usyd.faculty | SeS faculties schools::Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences::School of Economics | en_AU |
usyd.citation.volume | 184 | en_AU |
usyd.citation.issue | April 2021 | en_AU |
usyd.citation.spage | 46 | en_AU |
usyd.citation.epage | 77 | en_AU |
workflow.metadata.only | No | en_AU |
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