The Effect of Education on Time Preferences. Working Paper

Autor/in	Perez-Arce, Francisco
Institution	RAND Labor and Population
Titel	The Effect of Education on Time Preferences. Working Paper
Quelle	(2011), (49 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Preferences; Outcomes of Education; College Students; Student Surveys; Longitudinal Studies; Public Colleges; Admission Criteria; Student Characteristics; Personality Traits; Student Development; Time Perspective; Educational Policy; Long Range Planning; Correlation; Urban Universities; Telephone Surveys; Interviews; Federal Aid; Data Analysis; Attitude Measures; Models; Economics; Mexico + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Collegestudent; Schülerbefragung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Admission; Admission procedures; Zulassungsbedingung; Zulassungsverfahren; Zulassung; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Zeitbezug; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Langfristige Planung; Korrelation; Telephone interview; Telefoninterview; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Auswertung; Analogiemodell; Volkswirtschaftslehre; Mexiko
Abstract	The author examines whether education increases patience. Admission decisions in a public college in Mexico are determined through a lottery. He finds that applicants who were successful in the draw were more likely to study in the following years. He surveyed the applicants to this college almost two years after the admission decision was made and measured their time preferences with a series of hypothetical inter-temporal choice questions. He finds that individuals who were successful in the admission lottery were, on average, more patient. He argues that this evidence points towards a causal effect of education on time preferences. (Contains 1 figure, 10 tables, and 6 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10