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of children: (i) parenting styles defined by the extent of warmth and control parents employ in raising children, and (ii …) neighborhood quality. Based on a representative sample of 2,119 parents in the United States, I show that parents perceive large … leveraging beliefs measured in two different domains, and show that parents' perceived returns relate to their actual parenting …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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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 …
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We present a field experiment to study the effects of non-monetary incentives on healthy food choices of 282 children … be feasible. We introduce a system where food items are graded based on their nutritional value, involving parents or … classmates as change agents by providing them with information regarding the food choices of their children or friends. We find …
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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 …
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