Arbeitspapier
Can Patience Account for Subnational Differences in Student Achievement? Regional Analysis with Facebook Interests
Decisions to invest in human capital depend on people's time preferences. We show that differences in patience are closely related to substantial subnational differences in educational achievement, leading to new perspectives on longstanding within-country disparities. We use social-media data – Facebook interests – to construct novel regional measures of patience within Italy and the United States. Patience is strongly positively associated with student achievement in both countries, accounting for two-thirds of the achievement variation across Italian regions and one-third across U.S. states. Results also hold for six other countries with more limited regional achievement data.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Discussion Paper ; No. 429
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Analysis of Education
Cultural Economics; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology: General
- Subject
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patience
student achievement
regions
social media
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Hanushek, Eric A.
Kinne, Lavinia
Sancassani, Pietro
Woessmann, Ludger
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition
- (where)
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München und Berlin
- (when)
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2023
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Hanushek, Eric A.
- Kinne, Lavinia
- Sancassani, Pietro
- Woessmann, Ludger
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition
Time of origin
- 2023
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