Maintaining (locus of) control? : Assessing the impact of locus of control on education decisions and wages


Piatek, Rémi ; Pinger, Pia



URL: https://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_...
Document Type: Working paper
Year of publication: 2010
The title of a journal, publication series: SOEP papers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research
Volume: 338
Place of publication: Berlin
Publishing house: DIW
ISSN: 1864-6689
Publication language: English
Institution: Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences - CDSE (Economics)
Subject: 300 Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
Subject headings (SWD): Deutschland , Persönlichkeitspsychologie , Bildungsverhalten , Bildungsertrag , Lohn , Schätzung
Keywords (English): locus of control , wages , latent factor model , data set combination
Abstract: This paper establishes that individuals with an internal locus of control, i.e., who believe that reinforcement in life comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive effect only translates into labor income via the channel of education. Factor structure models are implemented on an augmented data set coming from two different samples. By so doing, we are able to correct for potential biases that arise due to reverse causality and spurious correlation, and to investigate the impact of premarket locus of control on later outcomes.




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