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 …

High school track choice determines college access in many countries. We hypothesize that some qualified students avoid … the college-bound track simply because they overestimate admission requirements. To test this hypothesis, we designed a … randomized field experiment that communicated the admission standards of local secondary schools on the academic track to …

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 …

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 …