Seminar The right timing matters: sensitive periods in the formation of socio-emotional skills Econometrics and Applied Micro seminar Add to calendar 2023-12-04 11:00 2023-12-04 12:15 Europe/Rome The right timing matters: sensitive periods in the formation of socio-emotional skills Conference Room Villa La Fonte YYYY-MM-DD Print Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Send by email When 04 December 2023 11:00 - 12:15 CET Where Conference Room Villa La Fonte Organised by Department of Economics In this seminar, Professor Matthias Sutter (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods) will present the paper 'The Right Timing Matters: Sensitive Periods in the Formation of Socio-Emotional Skills'. We propose a novel approach to learn about sensitive periods in the formation of socioemotional skills in which returns to investments into skills are especially high. In particular, we implement the same investment in different school grades and study grade-specific treatment effects on children's self-control, patience, and pro-sociality. Based on a randomised controlled trial with about 3,200 children in grades 2 to 5 of 135 elementary schools in Bangladesh, our results indicate sensitive periods in the formation of self-control and patience around the ages 7 and 8, while pro-sociality appears to be similarly malleable throughout ages 7 to 11.Co-authors: Laura Breitkopf (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods), Shyamal Chowdhury (The University of Sidney), Daniel Kamhöfer and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf) Contact(s): Chiara Masini (EUI - Department of Economics) Scientific Organiser(s): Prof. Sule Alan (EUI - Department of Economics) Speaker(s): Prof. Matthias Sutter (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods)