发表机构
USC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; UW-Madison; NBER; VU Amsterdam; U of Groningen（南加州大学; 鹿特丹伊拉斯姆斯大学; 威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校; 美国国家经济研究局; 阿姆斯特丹自由大学; 格罗宁根大学）
机构由 AI 辅助整理，请以论文原文为准。AI 中文总结
本研究利用家庭内随机遗传变异，结合多基因指数和荷兰税务数据，发现情绪稳定性遗传倾向增加收入和财富，责任心增加财富，支持人格对经济结果的因果影响。
AI 中文摘要
人格与经济结果相关联，但这些关系是否具有因果性仍不清楚。我们利用父母向后代随机遗传传递所产生的五大人格遗传倾向的家庭内变异。结合来自Lifelines队列研究的多基因指数与荷兰19年的行政税务记录，我们发现，情绪稳定性的更高遗传倾向会增加收入和家庭财富，而责任心的遗传倾向会增加家庭财富。其他三个特质在不同结果和规格下未显示出一致的模式。当我们逐步控制教育成就、认知表现和抑郁的遗传倾向时，情绪稳定性遗传倾向对收入的影响仍保持为正。这些发现加强了人格对收入和财富具有因果影响的证据。
英文摘要
Personality is associated with economic outcomes, but whether these relationships are causal remains unclear. We exploit within-family variation in genetic propensity toward the Big Five generated by random genetic transmission from parents to offspring. Combining polygenic indexes from the Lifelines cohort study with 19 years of administrative tax records in the Netherlands, we find that greater genetic propensity toward emotional stability increases earnings and household wealth, while genetic propensity toward conscientiousness increases household wealth. The other three traits show no consistent pattern across outcomes and specifications. The effect of genetic propensity toward emotional stability on earnings remains positive as we progressively account for genetic propensity toward educational attainment, cognitive performance, and depression. These findings strengthen the evidence that personality causally affects earnings and wealth.
