Can Patience Account for Subnational Differences in Student Achievement? Regional Analysis with Facebook Interests.

Autor/inn/en	Hanushek, Eric Alan; Kinne, Lavinia; Sancassani, Pietro; Woessmann, Ludger
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Can Patience Account for Subnational Differences in Student Achievement? Regional Analysis with Facebook Interests.
Quelle	Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research (2023) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper series. w31690
Beigaben	Illustrationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
DOI	10.3386/w31690
Schlagwörter	Vergleich; Bildungsniveau; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Humankapital; Arbeitspapier; Räumliche Verteilung; Student; Italien; USA
Abstract	Decisions to invest in human capital depend on people's time preferences. We show that differences in patience are closely related to substantial subnational differences in educational achievement, leading to new perspectives on longstanding within-country disparities. We use social-media data - Facebook interests - to construct novel regional measures of patience within Italy and the United States. Patience is strongly positively associated with student achievement in both countries, accounting for two-thirds of the achievement variation across Italian regions and one-third across U.S. states. Results also hold for six other countries with more limited regional achievement data.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2024/1