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 …

benefits from investing in education. The results suggest that the effect of an increase in parental income on educational … attainment is modest. For example, a 25 percent increase in parental income is predicted to increase post-secondary education … (PSE) attendance by one percent only. However, our results indicate that financial resources, other than parental income …

family background is closely related to educational attainment of white children of immigrants in both countries. Moreover … between children of immigrants and children of natives.Results from counterfactual simulations suggest that incentive …