Patience and achievement test results

Benedikt Vogt

Applied Economics Letters, 2017, vol. 24, issue 12, 846-849

Abstract: I investigate the relation between high-stakes achievement test scores and students’ patience. I use an experimentally validated measure of time preferences to assess patience in a large sample of Dutch students in secondary school. A one SD increase in the achievement test at the age of 12 predicts 26% of an SD greater level of patience at the age of 15. The results hint at the fact that education can shape preferences.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2016.1234692

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