Personality and marital surplus

Table 5 The probability of marriage by age 35: young cohorts

	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women	Men	β_m≠ β_f
	1	2	3	4	5	6	(p-value)
“Big 5” Personality Traits
Openness to Experience	−0.073*** (0.017)	−0.044** (0.020)	−0.061*** (0.017)	−0.035* (0.021)	−0.063*** (0.017)	−0.034 (0.021)	0.283
Conscientiousness	0.056*** (0.015)	0.062*** (0.019)	0.052*** (0.015)	0.056*** (0.019)	0.049*** (0.014)	0.055*** (0.019)	0.799
Extraversion	0.032* (0.017)	0.001 (0.021)	0.035** (0.017)	−0.004 (0.022)	0.039** (0.016)	−0.006 (0.022)	0.098
Agreeableness	0.026* (0.015)	−0.013 (0.019)	0.023 (0.015)	−0.010 (0.020)	0.022 (0.014)	−0.009 (0.020)	0.204
Neuroticism	0.026* (0.015)	−0.016 (0.020)	0.016 (0.015)	−0.027 (0.021)	0.016 (0.015)	−0.029 (0.020)	0.072
Risk Aversion			0.029** (0.014)	0.012 (0.019)	0.027* (0.014)	0.005 (0.018)	0.335
Years of Education			−0.019*** (0.006)	−0.020*** (0.007)	−0.017*** (0.005)	−0.018** (0.007)	0.907
German Ethnicity^d					−0.136*** (0.029)	−0.191*** (0.055)	0.376
East Germany^d					0.012 (0.043)	0.107** (0.050)	0.150
Religious Affiliation^d					0.059* (0.033)	0.099** (0.043)	0.461
Observations	1812	1734	1812	1734	1812	1734

Probit Model—Average Marginal Effects.
Note: Numbers in ( ) are robust standard errors. Model also includes age in 2005.
^d: marginal effect for discrete change of dummy variable from 0 to 1.
* = p < 0.1, ** = p < 0.05, *** = p < 0.01.