The Covid-19 crisis has hit labor markets. School and child-care closures have put families with children in … challenging situations. We look at Germany and quantify the macroeconomic importance of working parents. We document that 26 … percent of the German workforce have children aged 14 or younger and estimate that 11 percent of workers and 8 percent of all …

, we propose that parents invest more in VCA if their link to future generations-through their offspring-is made salient …. In a novel lab-in-the-field experiment, we vary whether parents are observed during a VCA decision (i.e., investing in … effects occur among more educated parents. As a result of this study, VCA across conditions led to 14,000 trees being planted …

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 …

influence of children’s cognitive skills and parents’ socioeconomic background on cooperation. …We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we … game. We find that third-party punishment doubles cooperation rates in comparison to a control condition. Children also …

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 …

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 …

This paper uses a field experiment to answer how information frictions between parents and their children affect … persuasion game between parents and their children. Parents have upwardly-biased beliefs about their child’s effort and the … parents was provided de-tailed information about their child’s academic progress. I frame the results in the context of a …