We provide a comprehensive account of how personality and preferences relate to the sorting of individuals into career paths. Combining rich panel survey data with administrative records for five cohorts of university entrants in Germany, we document three key findings. First, students sort strongly into fields of study along a broad set of personality and preference measures, and these differences remain pronounced after conditioning on expected earnings, non-wage amenities, and perceived ability across actual and counterfactual fields. Second, sorting is productive: students are more likely to complete their degree when their personality and preferences profile aligns with the typical profile in their field. Third, sorting patterns observed at the beginning of university remain remarkably persistent over time, with only modest field-specific adaptation during the course of study, and closely resemble those observed among workers in corresponding occupations.
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