-school students affects their behavior in risk and time preference tasks. Compared to two different control treatments, we find that … persist for up to almost 5 years after our intervention. Behavior in the risk and time preference tasks is related to … financial behavior outside the lab, in particular spending patterns. This shows that teaching financial literacy affects …

, time, and risk preferences with rich information on child behavior and family environment to study whether children …'s economic preferences predict their behavior. Re-sults from standard regression specifications demonstrate the predictive power … preferences for behavior attenuates. We discuss implications of our findings for research on the formation of children …