Patience cycles

Richard Barnett, Joydeep Bhattacharya and Mikko Puhakka

ISU General Staff Papers from Iowa State University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Evidence supports the notion that those who grow up to be patient do better than those who do not. Parents can inculcate the virtue of delayed gratification in their children by taking the right actions. We study a model in which parents, for selfish reasons, invest resources to raise patient children. In the model, patience raises the marginal return to human capital acquisition giving the patient young an incentive to spend more on their own education at the expense of investment in their own progeny’s patience. This dynamic generates intergenerational patience cycles.

Date: 2009-06-03
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