TY  - JOUR
AB  - 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”.
AU  - Alan, Sule
AU  - Ertac, Seda
DA  - November 2019
PY  - 2019
ST  - Fostering Patience in the Classroom: Results from Randomized Educational Intervention
T2  - EdWorkingPapers.com
TI  - Fostering Patience in the Classroom: Results from Randomized Educational Intervention
UR  - http://www.edworkingpapers.com/ai19-163
ER  -