Bertoni M., Bonfatti A., Celidoni M., Crema A., Dal Bianco C. (2019)

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Abstract

Personality traits are significantly associated with household financial behaviour, even when conditioning on partners’ cognition and other observable characteristics.
The personality of both partners matters when determining household financial decision making, although to different extents and through different traits.