Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/267312 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 10080
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We study the malleability of patience via educational interventions by aggregating evidence from earlier experiments in a meta-analysis and by conducting a field experiment. We find that the average effect of interventions on patience is positive but uncertain. The age of students explains a large share of between-study heterogeneity in treatment effects. Thus, we conduct a field experiment covering both youths and adults in Uganda. We find heterogenous effects by age: adults' patience measured in incentivized tasks is unaffected by the intervention after 15 months follow-up, but we observe large effects on patience and estimated discount factors for youth.
Subjects: 
patience
time preferences
malleability
field experiment
educational intervention
JEL: 
C93
D15
I21
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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