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 …

This paper studies optimal taxation of income and education when employers cannot observe workers' productivity and …. Implementation through income and education dependent taxes is discussed, as well as education mandates. A key insight is that … achieving predistribution requires complementing the income tax with additional policy instruments that regulate the flow of …

the Swedish income tax schedule. Using population-wide register data from the Swedish military enlistment and …

individuals to acquire education may serve as an additional signal (to earned labor income) on the underlying unobserved innate … education, as a supplement to the labor income tax. …

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 …