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 …

effects on school grades, but these negative effects are largely confined to children born extremely preterm (<28 weeks of … gestation, i.e. born at least 10 weeks earlier). Children born moderately preterm (i.e. born up to 5 weeks early) suffer no ill … school environment is very important for the outcomes of preterm born children, such that those born extremely preterm that …

between the countries increase with the income prospects in ROW and the number of international students. Higher stay rates of …This paper presents a model of two countries competing for a pool of students from the rest of the world (ROW). In … foreign students lead to more ambiguous results. In particular, an increase in educational quality can be accompanied by a …

individual earnings, to the distribution of income, and to economic growth. New empirical results show the importance of both …

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

addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …

In this note, we present a novel channel for a brain gain. Students from a developing country study in a developed host … country. A higher permanent migration probability of these students appears to be a brain drain for the developing country in … benefits accrue in this host country. A higher education quality raises in turn the human capital of the returning students. As …