Does Paternal Unemployment Affect Young Adult Offspring's Personality?

Viola Angelini, Marco Bertoni and Luca Corazzini

Journal of Human Capital, 2018, vol. 12, issue 3, 542 - 567

Abstract: Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we analyze the impact of paternal unemployment on the "big five" personality traits of young adult offspring aged 17-25. Results from longitudinal value-added models for personality show that paternal unemployment makes offspring significantly more conscientious and--to a smaller extent--less neurotic. The uncovered effects are robust to the presence of selection on unobservables and correlation between the error term and the lagged outcome. We also discuss heterogeneous effects and the potential mechanisms behind our findings.

Date: 2018
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