The evolution of the relationship between delay of gratification and socioeconomic status during COVID-19-induced online education

Tamás Keller () and Hubert Janos Kiss

No 2049, CERS-IE WORKING PAPERS from Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies

Abstract: We show the evolution of the delay of gratification (DG) of 951 students aged 10-14 years old during COVID-19-induced home-based online education by exploiting data from two waves of voluntary online surveys. Students with the highest socioeconomic status (SES) experienced a marginally significant absolute increase in DG, opening up a relative advantage between low- and high-SES students. The additional effort that high-SES parents invested due to the flexible home-office arrangements into the control and support of their offspring’s’ learning may have spurred these changes. Students’ DG is thus malleable according to the quantity and quality of time parents spend with their children.

Keywords: Delay of gratification; Socioeconomic status; COVID-19 pandemic; Primary school students; Online education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 D91 I24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2020-11
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