Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/240445 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Working Papers in Economics and Statistics No. 2021-17
Publisher: 
University of Innsbruck, Research Platform Empirical and Experimental Economics (eeecon), Innsbruck
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-the-field experiment
JEL: 
C91
D90
I21
J2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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