Early Education, Preferences, and Decision-Making Abilities

• Tác giả: Joana Cardim
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 028.53 Reading and use of other information media by specific age groups
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2022
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 308899
• Chủ đề: 1. CHILDREN; 2. DAYCARE; 3. DECISION-MAKING ABILITIES; 4. EARLY EDUCATION; 5. ECONOMIC PREFERENCES

Tóm tắt

One way to advance understanding of individual differences in decision making is to study the development of children's decision making. This paper studies the causal effects of daycare attendance on children's economic preferences and decision-making abilities, exploiting a lottery system that randomized admissions into oversubscribed daycare centers in Rio de Janeiro. Overall, daycare attendance had no effect on economic preferences or decision-making abilities. However, it did increase aversion to disadvantageous inequality (having less than one's peer). This increase is driven mostly by girls, a result that reproduces in a different study that randomized admissions into preschool education.