The stability of big-five personality traits

Deborah Cobb-Clark and Stefanie Schurer

Economics Letters, 2012, vol. 115, issue 1, 11-15

Abstract: We demonstrate that Big-Five personality traits are stable for working-age adults over a four-year period. Mean population changes are small and constant across age groups. Intra-individual changes are generally unrelated to adverse life events and are not economically meaningful.

Keywords: Non-cognitive skills; Big-five personality traits; Stability; Wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C18 J3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.11.015

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