Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Domenico Delli Gatti Author-X-Name-First: Domenico Author-X-Name-Last: Delli Gatti Author-Email: domenico.delligatti@unicatt.it Author-Workplace-Name: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Author-Workplace-Name: Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Author-Name: Jakob Grazzini Author-X-Name-First: Jakob Author-X-Name-Last: Grazzini Author-Name: Domenico Massaro Author-X-Name-First: Domenico Author-X-Name-Last: Massaro Author-Name: Fabrizio Panebianco Author-X-Name-First: Fabrizio Author-X-Name-Last: Panebianco Title: The Impact of Growth on the Transmission of Patience. Abstract: Patience affects economic growth, no news. This paper investigates the opposite causal relationship, i.e., how growth in uences patience. We propose a simple theo- retical framework where heterogeneous parents may choose to transmit their cultural trait - patience - to their offspring. Our model shows that parental effort to educate children to patience positively depends on economic growth. We test empirically this result using both country-level and individual data and show that, coherently with the model's prediction, growth has a significant impact on the e ort to teach patience. Length: 32 Creation-Date: 2022-07 File-URL: http://dipartimenti.unicatt.it/economia-finanza-def116.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf File-Function: First version, 2022 Number: def116 Classification-JEL: D150,D910, E210, O470. Keywords: Growth, Patience, Cultural transmission. Handle: RePEc:ctc:serie1:def116