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 …

sensitive children from detailed Danish register data: children with divorced parents, children with parents convicted of crime … emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate …, and children with a psychiatric diagnosis. We find that adding potentially disruptive children lowers the academic …

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

students. However, this may come at a cost since the existing literature emphasises the negative association between …. Specifically, for three consecutive years, students at two Belgian universities, in more than ten different study programmes, were … surveyed on their multitasking preferences and academic performance. Then, these results were merged with the students' exam …

large region in Denmark. The sample is merged with register information on parents and students observed until the age of 19 … and parent evaluations of the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) of about 6,000 children born in 1990-92 in a … larger when based on parents' SDQ scores compared to teachers' SDQ scores. According to our estimations, the school outcomes …