Carvalho, Leandro S;
Cardim, Joana;
Carneiro, Pedro;
De Walque, Damien;
(2026)
The decision-makers we become: Early education and the decision-making of boys and girls.
Journal of Development Economics
, 179
, Article 103660. 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103660.
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Abstract
One way to advance our 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. Impacts are estimated separately for boys and girls. Daycare attendance increased the decision-making quality of boys by 0.16 standard deviations (SD) and the aversion of girls to disadvantageous inequality (i.e., having less than one's peer) by 0.23 SD. It also decreased the self-control of boys by 0.19 SD.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The decision-makers we become: Early education and the decision-making of boys and girls |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103660 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103660 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Economics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10218684 |
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