Children's Patience and School-Track Choices Several Years Later: Linking Experimental and Field Data

Silvia Angerer (), Jana Bolvashenkova, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Philipp Lergetporer () and Matthias Sutter
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Jana Bolvashenkova: University of Munich
Philipp Lergetporer: Technical University of Munich

No 14401, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: lab-in-the-field experiment; children; school track choice; education; patience (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D90 I21 J2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2021-05
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Published - published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 220, 104837

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