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Personality and the education-health gradient

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Series: ISER Working Paper Series
Series number: 2012-20
Publication date: 2 October 2012
Pages: pp. 1–20

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We test the robustness of the results of Cutler and Lleras-Muney (2010) on the role of personality in explaining the education-health gradient by using alternative measures of child personality available in the National Child Development Study. We show that, alternatively to the authors conclusions, personality contributes to the education-health gradient to an extent nearly as large as that of cognition.

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Conti, G. and Hansman, C. (2012) Personality and the education-health gradient, ISER Working Paper Series, No.2012-20. Colchester: University of Essex

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        author = {Conti, G. and Hansman, C.},
        title = {Personality and the education-health gradient},
        institution = {University of Essex},
        number = {No.2012-20},
        type = {ISER Working Paper Series},
        year = 2012,
        address = {Colchester}
        }

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