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Children's Patience and School-Track Choices Several Years Later : Linking Experimental and Field Data
Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; Glätzle-Rützle, … - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224090
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Children’s Patience and Schooltrack Choices Several Years Later : Linking Experimental and Field Data
Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; Glätzle-Rützle, … - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225342
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Children’s patience and school-track choices several years later : Linking experimental and field data
Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; Glätzle-Rützle, … - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013226687
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Children's Patience and School-Track Choices Several Years Later : Linking Experimental and Field Data
Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; Glätzle-Rützle, … - 2023
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014357206
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Parent-child information frictions and human capital investment : evidence from a field experiment
Bergman, Peter - 2015
This paper uses a field experiment to answer how information frictions between parents and their children affect … persuasion game between parents and their children. Parents have upwardly-biased beliefs about their child's effort and the … effort from their children, which translates into significant gains in achievement. Relative to other interventions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010533076
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Extracurricular Educational Programs and School Readiness : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment with Preschool Children
Makles, Anna - 2016
This paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting unique data on an educational project in Germany, the Junior University (JU). Utilizing a quasi-experimental study design, we estimate the causal short-run effect of JU enrollment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996262
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Parent-Child Information Frictions and Human Capital Investment : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Bergman, Peter - 2015
This paper uses a field experiment to answer how information frictions between parents and their children affect … persuasion game between parents and their children. Parents have upwardly-biased beliefs about their child's effort and the … effort from their children, which translates into significant gains in achievement. Relative to other interventions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020574
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Effort, Spillover and Grades - an Experimental Design Using Peer Review
Kim San, Roland Cheo - 2003
Does the perceived performance of those around us affect our individual effort in the classroom? A game theoretical model is formalized to explain the factors that influence the choice to display effort in the classroom. It is shown that if there are incentives to participate, it is a dominant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014088104
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Children's patience and schooltrack 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012584079
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012591184