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 …

parents’ siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the spouses’ siblings. Using various human capital measures, we show that … extended family relative to the parents increases …

A bill to provide for free and compulsory education to all children of the age of six to fourteen years. …

This paper investigates if better access to secondary education increases enrolment in primary schools among children …

Engaging and strengthening the ICDS and Health programs of the government was a major approach of the two component … effectiveness at scale. This paper describes how the INHP learnt and evolved in its strategies in engaging existing public health …

the Swedish income tax schedule. Using population-wide register data from the Swedish military enlistment and …

We develop and estimate a model of jointly optimal income taxes for different types of income. Compared to standard … optimal tax formulas, optimal schedular income tax rates additionally depend on cross-elasticities between tax bases capturing … fiscal externalities. We discuss two applications: the taxation of different income sources such as labor or capital income …

proportion of income) also decline by almost the same amount, suggesting shared understanding that is characteristic of social …

uninsured capital income risk, and suffer from an information-processing capacity constraint. For given attention devoted to … capital income risk, we solve for the optimal consumption-saving choices and show that the expected welfare is increasing with … households would pay more attention to capital income risk if they have (i) lower initial wealth endowment, (ii) lower marginal …

This paper examines how skill-biased growth can generate economic fragmentation (income dis-parities) that give rise to …-nationalist policies (which destroy productivity, compress the income distribution and promote the benefits of social affiliation) …