Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/236652 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 9110
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We present direct evidence on the link between children’s patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three years later at the end of middle school, we find that patience significantly predicts choosing an academic track. This relationship remains robust after controlling for a rich set of covariates, such as family background, school-class fixed effects, risk preferences, and cognitive abilities, and is not driven by sample attrition. Accounting for middle-school GPA as a potential mediating factor suggests a direct link between patience and educational-track choice.
Subjects: 
patience
education
school track choice
children
lab-in-field experiment
JEL: 
C91
D90
I21
J20
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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