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Kiessling, Lukas; Chowdhury, Shyamal; … - 2021

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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When the great equalizer shuts down : schools, peers, and parents in pandemic times

Agostinelli, Francesco; Doepke, Matthias; Sorrenti, Giuseppe - In: Journal of public economics 206 (2022), pp. 1-10

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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2009

We provide evidence that the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth reflects a causal effect of cognitive skills and supports the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking student achievement across countries, over...

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Should Schools Grade Student Behavior? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Comportment Grade Reforms

Schoner, Florian; Mergele, Lukas; Zierow, Larissa - 2021

are consistent with these grades being insufficiently salient for students to alter actual student behaviors …

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A case for taxing charitable donations

Blumkin, Tomer; Tsadḳah, Efrayim - In: Journal of public economics 91 (2007) 7/8, pp. 1555-1564

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On the Desirability of Taxing Charitable Contributions

Blumkin, Tomer - 2007

We develop a model that allows for public goods and status signaling through charitable contributions. This model provides a unified framework in which contributions are driven both by altruism and status signaling. We use this setup to re-examine the conventional practice of rendering a...

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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences : a study on altruism in primary school children

Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2014

We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by …

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The impact of an adult education voucher program : evidence from a randomized field experiment

Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - In: Journal of public economics 96 (2012) 7/8, pp. 569-583

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Returns to Skills Around the World : Evidence from PIAAC

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2014

Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...

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