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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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-achieving students. The reduction in learning time was not larger for children from lower-educated parents, but it was larger for boys … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We …
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are consistent with these grades being insufficiently salient for students to alter actual student behaviors …
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The estimated values to society from long-term public projects, including climate change mitigation and infrastructure construction, are highly sensitive to the social discount rate (SDR) employed. Governmental guidance on social discounting has predominantly been based on input from expert...
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I study whether saving behavior reveals socially relevant intertemporal preferences. To this end, I decompose the present generation’s preference for the next into its dynastic and cross-dynastic components in a model of saving. If people are concerned about the next generation as such, then...
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We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by …
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stage by investigating the gender pay gap among university students working alongside their studies. With data from five … pay gaps and potential explanations. We find that female students earn about 6% less on average than male students, which … male and female students pursue. …
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In the education literature, it is generally acknowledged that both credit and insurance for students are rationed. In … students who have private information on their ability to learn and can decide to default on debt. We show that the combination … student risk aversion is high, high ability students are separated and student loan contracts involve a limited amount of …
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transnational transfer for mobile students is implemented. With endogenous income taxation, we show that the strength of fiscal …
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