Arbeitspapier

Children's patience and school-track 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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Papers in Economics and Statistics ; No. 2021-17

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: General‡
Analysis of Education
Thema
patience
education
school track choice
children
lab-in-the-field experiment

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Angerer, Silvia
Bolvashenkova, Jana
Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela
Lergetporer, Philipp
Sutter, Matthias
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of Innsbruck, Research Platform Empirical and Experimental Economics (eeecon)
(wo)
Innsbruck
(wann)
2021

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Angerer, Silvia
  • Bolvashenkova, Jana
  • Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela
  • Lergetporer, Philipp
  • Sutter, Matthias
  • University of Innsbruck, Research Platform Empirical and Experimental Economics (eeecon)

Entstanden

  • 2021

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