-Saharan Africa). This suggests a dominant role for the parents in determining educational opportunities of children. Evidence on the …

fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children’s economic preferences …

fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children's economic preferences …

) positively correlated with their children's economic preferences, even when controlling for personality traits and socio …

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 …

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 …

children of urban college educated fathers, but not in rural areas. Theoretical insights help understand the mechanisms …

persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's educationbecause of credit market imperfections. Parents may … leads to gender divergence in relative mobility for the children of highly educated fathers. Inurban China, and urban and … evidence of pure son preference in rural India.The girls in rural China do not face bias in financial investment by parents …

) positively correlated with their children's economic preferences, even when controlling for personality traits and socio …