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Is schooling a family thing? Effects of grandparents, parents, brothers and sisters on the school choices of boys and girls
No full textThere are various ways in which the family affects individual schooling decisions. To address these family forces at work, this paper asks whether parental human capital and parental income have distinct positive impacts on the childrens human capital formation. Estimates are presented that control for ability transmissions across generations using observed ability measures and the human capital of grandparents. Using the Dutch Brabant survey, I find that the human capital formation of boys is largely due to parental human capital transmissions. For girls I find that both parental human capital and parental income matters. These findings suggest credit market imperfections restrict the schooling decisions for girls
Estimating the effect of personality on male-female earnings
Get PDFThe authors adopt the Five-Factor Model of personality structure to explore how personality affected the earnings of a large group of men and women who graduated from Wisconsin high schools in 1957 and were re-interviewed in 1992. All five basic traits--extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience--had statistically significant positive or negative earnings effects, and together they appear to have had effects comparable to those commonly found for cognitive ability. Among men, substantial earnings advantages were associated with antagonism (the obverse of agreeableness), emotional stability (the obverse of neuroticism), and openness to experience; among women, with conscientiousness and openness to experience. Of the five traits, the evidence indicates that agreeableness had the greatest influence on gender differences in earnings: men were considerably more antagonistic (non-agreeable) than women, on average, and men alone were rewarded for that trait
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