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Toward an Understanding of the Development of Time Preferences: Evidence from Field Experiments / James Andreoni, Michael A. Kuhn, John A. List, Anya Samek, Kevin Sokal, Charles Sprenger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Andreoni, James.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w25590.
- NBER working paper series no. w25590
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Toward an Understanding of the Development of Time Preferences
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019.
- Summary:
- Time preferences have been correlated with a range of life outcomes, yet little is known about their early development. We conduct a field experiment to elicit time preferences of over 1,200 children ages 3-12, who make several intertemporal decisions. To shed light on how such primitives form, we explore various channels that might affect time preferences, from background characteristics to the causal impact of an early schooling program that we developed and operated. Our results suggest that time preferences evolve substantially during this period, with younger children displaying more impatience than older children. We also find a strong association with race: black children, relative to white or Hispanic children, are more impatient. Finally, assignment to different schooling opportunities is not significantly associated with child time preferences.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- February 2019.
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