Keep Calm and Carry On: Immediate-vs. Six-Month Effects of Mindfulness Training on Academic Performance

Lea Cassar, Mira Fischer and Vanessa Valero

No 10099, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: Mindfulness practices are gaining popularity in private and public organizations. In a randomized controlled trial, we examine whether mindfulness training improves the academic performance of university students. The intervention improves mental health and non-cognitive skills. However, it takes time before students’ performance can benefit from the training: we find that, if anything, the intervention marginally decreases average grades right after the end of the intervention, whereas it significantly increases academic performance, by about 0.4 standard deviations, six months after.

Keywords: performance; mental health; education; mindfulness training; field experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 I12 I21 I31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-exp, nep-hrm and nep-ure
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