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 …

parents to children; (2) positive assortative mating of parents, which tends to reinforce the impact of parents on the child … box, by assuming that these are shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. Attitudes include fundamental …

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

social preferences. We find that second born children are typically less patient, less risk averse, and more trusting …. However, siblings’ sex composition interacts importantly with birth order effects. Second born children are more risk taking …

-- on children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic …