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 …

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 …

-life outcomes, such as educational achievements, labor market outcomes, or health status. We contribute to the recent literature … 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 …

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 …

Do parents invest more or less in their high ability children? We provide new evidence on this question by comparing … determinant of cognitive ability. We find that parents invest more in high ability children, with a one standard deviation … implications for education policy. -- children ; cognitive ability ; parental investment ; handedness …

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 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 …

Passive smoking is a major public health issue. This paper documents the main risk factors that determine children … of children drawn from the Health Survey for England, for whom we match parental and household smoking and demographic … income and child health. -- passive smoking ; child health ; parental smoking ; cotinine ; income …

household income only being a significant predictor of death from cancer. Moreover, we find that children born in a location … from a sample of around 5,000 children collected in the UK in 1937-39, who have been traced through official death records … results confirm that childhood conditions such as household income and the quality of the home environment are significant …

from a bilingual city in Northern Italy. We find that German-speaking primary school children are about 46% more likely … than Italian-speaking children to delay gratification in an intertemporal choice experiment. The difference remains …