TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Angerer, Silvia
AU  - Bolvashenkova, Jana
AU  - Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela
AU  - Lergetporer, Philipp
AU  - Sutter, Matthias
        TI  - Children's Patience and School-Track Choices Several Years Later: Linking Experimental and Field Data
        PY  - 2021/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 14401
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14401
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - lab-in-the-field experiment
KW  - children
KW  - school track choice
KW  - education
KW  - patience
        ER  -