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 …

-achieving students. The reduction in learning time was not larger for children from lower-educated parents, but it was larger for boys … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We …

addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …

university education for their children. The latter are more likely to underestimate returns and overestimate costs of university …

framed field experiment, we let 142 three to six-year old preschool children allocate a fixed endowment between an in …

from a bilingual city in Northern Italy. We find that German-speaking primary school children are about 46% more likely … than Italian-speaking children to delay gratification in an intertemporal choice experiment. This result is robust when …

refugees' characteristics. We conducted survey experiments with more than 5,000 university students in Germany in which we …

Children with lower socioeconomic status (SES) tend to benefit more from early child care, but are substantially less … care for lower-SES children. In our RCT in Germany with highly subsidized child care (n > 600), treated families receive …