We present direct evidence on the link between children’s patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining … an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three …

from a bilingual city in Northern Italy. We find that German-speaking primary school children are about 46% more likely … than Italian-speaking children to delay gratification in an intertemporal choice experiment. This result is robust when …

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 …

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 … influence of children's cognitive skills and parents' socioeconomic background on cooperation. …

We measure the prevalence of discrimination between Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children attending school in … Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see …

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 …

; parochialism ; experiments with children and adolescents …

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 … willing to pay money to override their children's choices. Parental interference predicts more intensive parenting styles and …

We use novel data on nearly 6,000 children and adolescents aged 6 to 16 that combine incen-tivized measures of social …, time, and risk preferences with rich information on child behavior and family environment to study whether children … of children's pref-erences for their prosociality, educational achievement, risky behaviors, emotional health, and …

We study the relationship between parenting style and a broad range of children’s skills and outcomes. Based on survey … and experimental data from 5,580 children and their parents, we find that children exposed to positive parenting have … satisfied with their life. Positive parenting is negatively associated with children’s neuroticism, patience, engagement in …