Cécile Magnée

Cécile Magnée
Maastricht University | UM · Department of Economics

MSc Economic and Financial Research

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Questions about personality traits answered by the mother at ages 10...
Does sibling gender affect personality traits?
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  • Aug 2020
This paper studies whether sibling gender affects personality traits. We use the idea that if parents decide to have a second child, it is random whether they will have a boy or a girl. Therefore, the relationship between the second-born sibling's gender and the first sibling's personality traits is causal. We employ longitudinal data from a large...
Does Birth Spacing Affect Personality?
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  • Feb 2017
This paper studies the causal effect of birth spacing (i.e., the age difference between siblings) on personality traits. We use longitudinal data from a large British cohort which has been followed from birth until age 42. Following earlier studies, we employ miscarriages between the first and second child as an instrument for birth spacing. The re...