Patience affects economic growth, no news. This paper investigates the opposite causal relationship, i.e., how growth …, coherently with the model's prediction, growth has a significant impact on the effort to teach patience. … influences patience. We propose a simple theoretical framework where heterogeneous parents may choose to transmit their cultural …

Patience affects economic growth, no news. This paper investigates the opposite causal relationship, i.e., how growth …, coherently with the model’s prediction, growth has a significant impact on the effort to teach patience … influences patience. We propose a simple theoretical framework where heterogeneous parents may choose to transmit their cultural …

We consider a neoclassical growth model with quasi-hyperbolic discounting under Kantian optimization: each temporal …

We study the malleability of patience via educational interventions by aggregating evidence from earlier experiments in … a meta-analysis and by conducting a field experiment. We find that the average effect of interventions on patience is …' patience measured in incentivized tasks is unaffected by the intervention after 15 months follow-up, but we observe large …