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parents’ siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the spouses’ siblings. Using various human capital measures, we show that … extended family relative to the parents increases …
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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 …
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, even though displacement episodes early in children’s lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children’s teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …
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are consistent with these grades being insufficiently salient for students to alter actual student behaviors …
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years. The intervention includes students aged 7-9 and consists of pulling students from their regular mathematics classes … school year. All students, not only struggling students, are pulled out. We find that students in treatment schools increased …
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