Ever failed, try again, succeed better: results from a randomized educational intervention on grit

Publication type

Journal Article

Authors

Publication date

August 15, 2019

Summary:

We show that grit, a skill that has been shown to be highly predictive of achievement, is malleable in childhood and can be fostered in the classroom environment. We evaluate a randomized educational intervention implemented in two independent elementary school samples. Outcomes are measured via a novel incentivized real-effort task and performance in standardized tests. We find that treated students are more likely to exert effort to accumulate task-specific ability and hence more likely to succeed. In a follow up 2.5 years after the intervention, we estimate an effect of about 0.2 standard deviations on a standardized math test.

Published in

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volume and page numbers

Volume: 134 , p.1 -1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjz006

ISSN

335533

Subjects

Link

- https://lib.essex.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1590066?lang=eng

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