Children?s patience and school-track choices several years later: Linking experimental and field data

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; Glaetzle-Ruetzler, Daniela; Lergetporer, Philipp; Sutter, Matthias
• 署名单位: Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; University of Innsbruck; Technical University of Munich; Max Planck Society; University of Cologne; IZA Institute Labor Economics
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2023.104837
• 发表日期: 2023
• 关键词: Patience; education; School track choice; CHILDREN; Lab-in-the-field experiment

摘要

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. (c) 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).