Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/222111 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper No. 214
Publisher: 
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition, München und Berlin
Abstract: 
Despite the importance for socio-economic outcomes, there is an ongoing debate about the stability of personality traits over the life cycle. By disentangling age, period and cohort influences on personality traits, this paper adds to the existing empirical contributions, which often focus on age patterns and disregard cohort and period influences. We present the results from systematic specification tests that provide novel evidence for the separability of age, period, and cohort effects in almost all personality traits. Our estimates also document that for different cohorts, the evolution of personality traits across the life-cycle follows a stable, though non-constant, age-profile, while there are sizeable differences across time periods
Subjects: 
Big Five personality traits
Locus of Control
Risk attitudes
age-periodcohort decomposition
life cycle
JEL: 
D8
J1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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