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Culture and Student Achievement: The Intertwined Roles of Patience and Risk-Taking / Eric A. Hanushek, Lavinia Kinne, Philipp Lergetporer, Ludger Woessmann.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hanushek, Eric A.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w27484.
- NBER working paper series no. w27484
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2020.
- Summary:
- Patience and risk-taking - two cultural traits that steer intertemporal decision-making - are fundamental to human capital investment decisions. To understand how they contribute to international differences in student achievement, we combine PISA tests with the Global Preference Survey. We find that opposing effects of patience (positive) and risk-taking (negative) together account for two-thirds of the cross-country variation in student achievement. In an identification strategy addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country-of-origin cultural traits in models with residence-country fixed effects. Associations of culture with family and school inputs suggest that both may act as channels.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- July 2020.
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