No Evidence that Siblings' Gender Affects Personality across Nine Countries

Arbeitspapier

Does growing up with a sister rather than a brother affect personality? In this paper, we provide a comprehensive analysis of the effects of siblings' gender on adults' personality, using data from 85,887 people from 12 large representative surveys covering 9 countries (the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, Mexico, China, and Indonesia). We investigated the personality traits risk tolerance, trust, patience, locus of control, and the Big Five. We found no meaningful causal effects of the gender of the next younger sibling, and no associations with the gender of the next older sibling. Based on high statistical power and consistent results in the overall sample and relevant subsamples, our results suggest that siblings' gender does not systematically affect personality.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: CEBI Working Paper Series ; No. 02/22

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
• Thema: personality ; economic preferences ; sibling gender ; sibling sex

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Dudek, Thomas ; Brenøe, Anne Ardila ; Feld, Jan ; Rohrer, Julia M.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of Copenhagen, Department of Economics, Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)
• (wo): Copenhagen
• (wann): 2022

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/258965
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ