dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 … of defectors is applied. Children also engage in reciprocating others, showing that reciprocity strategies are already … young children fail to anticipate the benefits of reputation building. We also show that the cognitive skills of children …

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 …

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's cognitive skills and parents' socioeconomic background influence cooperation. We complement our experimental …We study the developmental roots of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 to 6. In a unified experimental framework … a repeated prisoner's dilemma game. We find that already children aged 3 act in a conditionally cooperative way. Yet …

We measure the prevalence of discrimination between Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children attending school in … Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see … status can generate solidarity with new refugees. We also find that parents' narratives about the refugee crisis are …

economic preferences. In our study, the latter are also related in a meaningful way to students' field behavior. …

social preferences. We find that second born children are typically less patient, less risk averse, and more trusting …. However, siblings' sex composition interacts importantly with birth order effects. Second born children are more risk taking …