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Does Paternal Unemployment Affect Young Adult Offspring's Personality?

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  • Viola Angelini
  • Marco Bertoni
  • Luca Corazzini

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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.

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  • Viola Angelini & Marco Bertoni & Luca Corazzini, 2018. "Does Paternal Unemployment Affect Young Adult Offspring's Personality?," Journal of Human Capital, University of Chicago Press, vol. 12(3), pages 542-567.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:jhucap:doi:10.1086/698607
    DOI: 10.1086/698607
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    1. Mörk, Eva & Sjögren, Anna & Svaleryd, Helena, 2020. "Consequences of parental job loss on the family environment and on human capital formation-Evidence from workplace closures," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 67(C).
    2. Greta Morando & Lucinda Platt, 2022. "The Impact of Centre‐based Childcare on Non‐cognitive Skills of Young Children," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 89(356), pages 908-946, October.
    3. Mörk, Eva & Sjögren, Anna & Svaleryd, Helena, 2019. "Consequences of parental job loss on the family environment and on human capital formation - Evidence from plant closures," Working Paper Series 2019:7, Uppsala University, Department of Economics.
    4. Jennifer Feichtmayer & Regina T. Riphahn, 2023. "Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Benefit Receipt: Evidence from Germany," CESifo Working Paper Series 10835, CESifo.
    5. Uwe Jirjahn & Martha Ottenbacher, 2023. "Big Five personality traits and sex," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 36(2), pages 549-580, April.
    6. Jennifer Feichtmayer & Regina T. Riphahn, 2023. "Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Benefit Receipt: Evidence from Germany," SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research 1201, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).

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