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 …

students to generally exhibit stronger "sensitivity" to grades. We examine student persistence in a wide spectrum of academic … make students more responsive to grades received in it, rather than the other way around as is commonly suggested. …

-economic groups that are further amplified upon students' adjustment of their educational choices in the course of studies. The best … assign, on average, lower grades and conjectured that female students exhibit stronger aversion to low grades, hence their … attachment to the field. A key implication is that categories of students who attach high importance to pecuniary benefits of …

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 …