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Determinants and consequences of student test scores : evidence from international, big, and text data
Sancassani, Pietro - 2023
in thirty countries around the world. Chapter 4 shows the association between a measure of patience derived from social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014327358
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The impact of education on the subjective discount rate in Ugandan villages
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009
Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in developing countries. We elicit a subjective discount rate for a varied sample of Ugandan villagers. In accordance with other studies, we have found the discount rate to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268981
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The today and tomorrow of kids : time preferences and educational outcomes of children
Castillo, Marco; Ferraro, Paul J.; Jordan, Jeffrey L.; … - In: Journal of public economics 95 (2011) 11/12, pp. 1377-1385
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009419206
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Children's patience and school-track choices several years later: linking experimental and field data
Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519178
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Children's patience and schooltrack choices several years later : linking experimental and field data
Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012584079
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Children's patience and school-track choices several years later : linking experimental and field data
Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012591184
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Patience in financial decisions and post-secondary education
Park, Na Young - In: Finance research letters 31 (2019), pp. 185-194
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421332
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Patience and achievement test results
Vogt, Benedikt - In: Applied economics letters 24 (2017) 10/12, pp. 846-849
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011714332
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Culture and student achievement: the intertwined roles of patience and risk-taking
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Kinne, Lavinia; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2020
Patience and risk-taking - two cultural traits that steer intertemporal decision-making - are fundamental to human … combine PISA tests with the Global Preference Survey. We find that opposing effects of patience (positive) and risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241063
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Culture and student achievement : the intertwined roles of patience and risk-taking
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Kinne, Lavinia; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2020
Patience and risk-taking - two cultural traits that steer intertemporal decision-making - are fundamental to human … combine PISA tests with the Global Preference Survey. We find that opposing effects of patience (positive) and risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012255834