Effect of female elementary-school homeroom teachers on time preferences in adulthood

Eiji Yamamura (), Myong-Il Kang and Shinsuke Ikeda

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Abstract: Using teacher–student random gender matching and hand-collected individual-level data, we examine how female teachers in elementary schools influence students’ time preferences in adulthood. Our major finding is that female teachers lead pupils to have lower time discount rates. Furthermore, this effect on male pupils is larger than on female pupils.

Keywords: Time preference; Gender difference; Teacher–Student gender matches (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A22 A29 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-04-10
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