We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children’s intertemporal decision-making. Based … on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children’s present bias and … aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure parental interference, we show that more than half of all parents are …

We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children's intertemporal decision-making. Based … on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children's present bias and … aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure parental interference, we show that more than half of all parents are …

are consistent with these grades being insufficiently salient for students to alter actual student behaviors …

hinges on risk tolerance and patience. Parents expecting their children to become entrepreneurs have an incentive to instill … these two values in their children. Cultural transmission is Beckerian, i.e., parents are driven by the desire to maximize … their children's happiness. We also consider, in an extension, a paternalistic motive for preference transmission.The growth …

- on school performance. We combine data from the National Educational Panel Study covering 5348 primary school students …