Does Internal Locus of Control Get You Out of Homelessness?

Santiago Budría (), Alejandro Betancourt-Odio and Eszter Wirth
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Santiago Budría: Universidad Nebrija
Alejandro Betancourt-Odio: Universidad Pontificia Comillas
Eszter Wirth: Universidad Pontificia Comillas

No 16242, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper examines the role of internal locus of control in shaping transitions into homelessness. The data is taken from a longitudinal Australian dataset drawn from a sample of vulnerable individuals. The results, based on a Wooldridge Conditional Maximum Likelihood (WCML) estimator, show that individuals high in internal locus of control are significantly less likely to enter a homeless episode.

Keywords: locus of control; homelessness; dynamic probit model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 D31 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13 pages
Date: 2023-06
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Published - published in: Economic Letters, 2023, 230, 111249

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