The Causal Effect of Paternal Unemployment on Children's Personality

Viola Angelini, Marco Bertoni and Luca Corazzini

No 795, SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research from DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

Abstract: Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we show that paternal unemployment has a surprisingly positive causal effect on the "Big 5" personality traits of children aged 17 to 25. In particular, our results from longitudinal value-added models for personality suggest that paternal unemployment makes children significantly more conscientious and less neurotic. Our results are robust to different estimation methods and to selection on unobservables. Furthermore, these effects are stronger for girls and for children whose mothers are employed.

Keywords: personality traits; unemployment; household behavior; SOEP (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 J13 J24 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 p.
Date: 2015
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