Personality traits and economic activity

Bijou Yang and David Lester

Applied Economics, 2016, vol. 48, issue 8, 653-657

Abstract: Following Lynn's (1991) studying showing that the scores of undergraduate students in 43 countries on variables such as work ethic and achievement motivation predicted per capita income and economic growth rates in those countries, the present study explored whether the average scores of residents of the 50 states in the United States were associated with the gross state product. States whose residents scored higher on openness had higher gross state products while those whose residents scored higher in openness and lower on neuroticism had higher gross state products per capita.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2015.1085638

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