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 …

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

women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap …. College educated women marry later, have fewer children, are less likely to view marriage as financial security, are happier …

We present direct evidence on the link between children’s patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining … an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three …