Article detail · 2018
Fostering Patience in the Classroom: Results from a Randomized Educational Intervention
- Year
- 2018
- DOI
- 10.1086/699007
- Type
- article
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- YÖKSİS venue JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
- Catalog match (ISSN) Journal of Political Economy
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Abstract
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We evaluate the impact of a randomized educational intervention on children’s intertemporal choices. The intervention aims to improve the ability to imagine future selves and encourages forward-looking behavior using a structured curriculum delivered by children’s own trained teachers. We find that treated students make more patient intertemporal decisions in incentivized experimental tasks. The results persist almost 3 years after the intervention, replicate well in a different sample, and are robust across different experimental elicitation methods. The effects also extend beyond experimental outcomes: we find that treated students are significantly less likely to receive a low “behavior grade.”
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12 publications in the local catalog that cite this work (OpenAlex reference match; not the full global list).
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