@article {11403,
	title = {The Non-Cognitive Roots of Civic Honesty: Evidence from the US},
	number = {2},
	year = {2021},
	institution = {University of Verona},
	address = {Verona, Italy},
	abstract = {Even though a large experimental literature explored the links between personality traits and
honesty, available evidence is inconclusive. In this study, we provide large-scale evidence on
the influence of the {\textquotedblleft}Big Five{\textquotedblright} personality traits on civic honesty, by considering the role
played by individuals{\textquoteright} socioeconomic status. To this aim, we rely on survey data from the
Health and Retirement Study (HRS), which is representative of the US population aged 50 or
more. We show that most {\textquotedblleft}Big Five{\textquotedblright} traits significantly affect civic honesty, with
Agreeableness being the strongest predictor. We view our findings as complementing and
extending to civic-minded behavior the results of prior work on cheating based on small
samples and non-representative subject pools. },
	keywords = {Civic Honesty, Personality Traits, socioeconomic status},
	issn = {2036-2919 },
	url = {http://dse.univr.it/home/workingpapers/wp2021n2.pdf},
	author = {Bucciol Alessandro and Luca Zarri}
}
@article {10969,
	title = {The Shared Non-cognitive Roots of Health and Socioeconomic Status: Evidence from the US},
	number = {14},
	year = {2020},
	institution = {University of Verona},
	address = {Verona, Italy },
	abstract = {A voluminous literature established a strong relationship between subjective health and
socioeconomic status measures. We test the idea that self-reported health and subjective
socioeconomic status have {\textquotedblleft}shared non-cognitive roots{\textquotedblright}, i.e., that the same personality traits
significantly affect both status variables, even after controlling for the complex relationships
involving objective and subjective measures across the two domains. To this aim, we estimate
a bivariate model based on longitudinal large-scale data (30,675 observations) from six waves
(2006-2016) of the US Health and Retirement Study. Our findings strongly support our
conjecture, as all the {\textquotedblleft}Big Five{\textquotedblright} traits are significantly related to self-reported health and
subjective socioeconomic status with the same sign, even after controlling for both objective
measures and once the other subjective measure is considered. These results point to a novel,
direct channel through which non-cognitive factors similarly influence self-evaluations across
distinct, though strongly intertwined, domains. },
	keywords = {Bivariate Model, Non-Cognitive Factors, Self-reported Health Status, Subjective Socioeconomic Status},
	issn = {2036-2919},
	url = {http://dse.univr.it/home/workingpapers/wp2020n14.pdf},
	author = {Bucciol Alessandro and Coriele, Chiara and Zarri Luca}
}
