Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/237538 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
CERS-IE Working Papers No. CERS-IE WP - 2020/49
Publisher: 
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Budapest
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.
Subjects: 
Delay of gratification
Socioeconomic status
COVID-19 pandemic
Primary school students
Online education
JEL: 
C93
D91
I24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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