Children's patience and schooltrack choices several years later: Linking experimental and field data
We present direct evidence on the link between children's patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three years later at the end of middle school, we find that patience significantly predicts choosing an academic track. This relationship remains robust after controlling for a rich set of covariates, such as family background, school-class fixed effects, risk preferences, and cognitive abilities, and is not driven by sample attrition. Accounting for middle-school GPA as a potential mediating factor suggests a direct link between patience and educational-track choice.
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2021
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Authors: | Angerer, Silvia ; Bolvashenkova, Jana ; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela ; Lergetporer, Philipp ; Sutter, Matthias |
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Bonn : Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods |
Subject: | patience | education | school track choice | children | lab-in-the-field experiment |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | 1762474018 [GVK] hdl:10419/245975 [Handle] hdl:21.11116/0000-0008-938D-3 [Handle] RePEc:mpg:wpaper:2021_12 [RePEc] |
Classification: | C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior ; D90 - Intertemporal Choice and Growth. General ; I21 - Analysis of Education ; J2 - Time Allocation; Work Behavior; Employment Determination and Creation |
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