parents to children; (2) positive assortative mating of parents, which tends to reinforce the impact of parents on the child … box, by assuming that these are shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. Attitudes include fundamental …

-selected students as participants. This is potentially problematic as students participating in experiments may behave systematically … different than non-participating students or non-students. In this paper we empirically investigate whether laboratory … experiments with student samples misrepresent the importance of social preferences. Our first study shows that students who …

significant, and robust to controlling for personal characteristics, educational attainment, income, and measures of liquidity …

most effective for children whose parents provide few social and interactive activities for their children. … children and use this tool to show that children from high socioeconomic status (SES) families are more accurate in their self …-assessment, compared to children from low SES families. To move beyond correlational evidence, we then exploit the exogenous variation of …