Using the UK Household Longitudinal Study, we explore how personality traits are associated with people’s responses when confronting the Covid-19 crisis. Our study shows that people who have symptoms related to Covid-19 are prone to high levels of neuroticism, extraversion and openness to experience. We also find people with high scores of agreeableness have lower monthly earnings, a greater chance of being furloughed and fewer opportunities to work from home. When it comes to home production activities, more agreeable family members bear more burden of the household chores and childcare responsibilities.

Read more about their research on the COVID-19 Economic Research site