TY  - JOUR
A1  - Caliendo, Marco
A1  - Hennecke, Juliane
T1  - Drinking is different!
BT  - examining the role of locus of control for alcohol consumption
JF  - Empirical economics
N2  - Locus of control (LOC) measures how much an individual believes in the causal relationship between her own actions and her life’s outcomes. While earlier literature has shown that an increasing internal LOC is associated with increased health-conscious behavior in domains such as smoking, exercise or diets, we find that drinking seems to be different. Using very informative German panel data, we extend and generalize previous findings and find a significant positive association between having an internal LOC and the probability of occasional and regular drinking for men and women. An increase in an individual’s LOC by one standard deviation increases the probability of occasional or regular drinking on average by 3.4% for men and 6.9% for women. Using a decomposition method, we show that roughly a quarter of this association can be explained by differences in the social activities between internal and external individuals.
KW  - locus of control
KW  - alcohol consumption
KW  - health behavior
KW  - risk perception
KW  - social activity
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-022-02219-3
SN  - 0377-7332
SN  - 1435-8921
VL  - 63
IS  - 5
SP  - 2785
EP  - 2815
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Caliendo, Marco
A1  - Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.
A1  - Hennecke, Juliane
A1  - Uhlendorff, Arne
T1  - Locus of control and internal migration
JF  - Regional science and urban economics
N2  - We model migration across domestic labor markets (internal migration) as the outcome of a job search process in which job seekers form subjective beliefs about the return search effort that are related to their locus of control. Job seekers with an internal locus of control are predicted to search across larger geographic areas and migrate more frequently as a result. We empirically test the relationship between locus of control and the propensity to migrate using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We find that not only do individuals with an internal locus of control express more willingness to migrate, they do in fact also migrate more often.
KW  - Locus of control
KW  - Internal migration
KW  - Mobility
KW  - Job search
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2019.103468
SN  - 0166-0462
SN  - 1879-2308
VL  - 79
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Preuss, Malte
A1  - Hennecke, Juliane
T1  - Biased by success and failure
BT  - how unemployment shapes locus of control
JF  - Labour economics : an international journal
N2  - We test the stability of locus of control, a measure that has been attributed substantial explanatory power for economic outcomes since it depicts how much people believe in their ability to affect life outcomes. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, we find that a job loss due to a plant closure has no long-lasting effect on locus of control. The common assumption of its stability is thus not rejected. However, during unemployment, control perception decreases by 30 percent of one standard deviation. The effect holds true independent from unemployment duration or socio-demographic characteristics and vanishes as soon as the unemployed find a new job. We therefore conclude that stated locus of control is affected by unemployment. Using this trait as explanatory variable can thus lead to biased estimations when this temporary deviation in measurement is not accounted for.
KW  - Personality
KW  - Locus of control
KW  - Unemployment
KW  - Measurement error
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2018.05.007
SN  - 0927-5371
SN  - 1879-1034
VL  - 53
SP  - 63
EP  - 74
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -