This paper documents a large association between individuals' time discounting in
incentivized experiments and their positions in the real-life wealth distribution derived from …

We present direct evidence on the link between children's patience and educational-track
choices years later. Combining an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school …

We conduct experimental games with police applicants in Germany to investigate whether
intrinsically motivated agents self-select into this type of public service. Our focus is on …

Differences in patience across language groups have recently received increased attention
in the literature. We provide evidence on this issue by measuring time preferences of French …

This paper studies the evolution of three higher education wage differentials from 1996 to
2019 in Germany. We distinguish between degrees from academic universities, degrees …

Upper secondary education in Switzerland is divided into a general and a vocational path.
Approximately two thirds of adolescents attend the vocational path. The initial vocational …

Background: Intertemporal decision-making, which involves making choices between
outcomes at different time points, is a fundamental aspect of human behavior …

Objective A considerable amount of research identified socio-economic status and cognitive
ability as robust predictors, the influence of student's ability to delay gratification (ADG) on …

This study aims to discover the barriers to studying a major aligned with personal interests.
We applied a unique dataset on real retrospective choices of prospective students in Poland …

Digital technologies will both create new jobs and replace existing ones. To cope with
increasing labor market dynamics in the digital age, workers will have to become more …