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Children's patience and school-track choices several years later : linking experimental and field data

Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - 2021

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 …

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Does ignorance of economic returns and costs explain the educational aspiration gap? : evidence from representative survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

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

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Discrimination at young age : experimental evidence from preschool children

Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela - 2018

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

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The effect of language on economic behavior : experimental evidence from children's intertemporal choices

Sutter, Matthias; Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, … - 2015 - Date: 25 September 2015

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 …

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Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition : evidence from representative experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

Higher education finance depends on the public’s preferences for charging tuition, which may be partly based on beliefs about the university earnings premium. To test whether public support for tuition depends on earnings information, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of...

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Do natives' beliefs about refugees' education level affect attitudes toward refugees? : evidence from randomized survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Piopiunik, Marc; Simon, Lisa - 2017

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

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Educational inequality and public policy preferences : evidence from representative survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality strongly increases concerns about educational...

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