Life‐course perspective on personality traits and fertility with sequence analysis

Letizia Mencarini, Raffaella Piccarreta and Marco Le Moglie

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 2022, vol. 185, issue 3, 1344-1369

Abstract: We investigate the link between personality traits (PTs) and fertility, accounting for the possible interplay with other key life course events. Using data from German Socio‐Economic Panel survey, we build sequence‐type representations of fertility, union and job careers between the ages of 20 and 40. We rely on multichannel sequence analysis (MSA) and on the Partitioning around Medoids algorithm to cluster individuals with similar experiences, and relate clusters to PTs via multinomial regression. We also develop a procedure to apply standard and MSA to truncated trajectories. This enables inclusion of individuals whose trajectories were otherwise observed for a limited age span, notably belonging to younger cohorts. We show that PTs relate to these (portions of) life‐course trajectories, of which fertility is only one outcome.

Date: 2022
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