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We study the malleability of patience via educational interventions by aggregating evidence from earlier experiments in a meta-analysis and by conducting a field experiment. We find that the average effect of interventions on patience is positive but uncertain. The age of students explains a large share of between-study heterogeneity in treatment effects. Thus, we conduct a field experiment covering both youths and adults in Uganda. We find heterogenous effects by age: adults’ patience measured in incentivized tasks is unaffected by the intervention after 15 months follow-up, but we observe large effects on patience and estimated discount factors for youth.
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Tim Kaiser, German Institute for Economic Research
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Luis Oberrauch, University of Tubingen
Lukas Menkhoff, German Institute for Economic Research
Is Patience Malleable Via Educational Intervention? Evidence from Field Experiments
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Session: [186] EXPERIMENT AND MACHINE LEARNING IN EDUCATION Date: 7/4/2023 Time: 2:30 PM to 4:15 PM