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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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framed field experiment, we let 142 three to six-year old preschool children allocate a fixed endowment between an in …
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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 …
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child mental health evaluations from parents, teachers, children and psychiatrists for mental health problems, test whether … the different reports for the estimated income gradient. We find that respondents frequently evaluate children differently …
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and cognitive development, we test if left-handed children do significantly worse than their right-handed counterparts …) Vocabulary, (3) Mathematics, (4) Reading and (5) Comprehension. We find that while left-handed children have a significantly … poor mental health. We also find that left-handed children have significantly lower cognitive development test scores than …
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Do parents invest more or less in their high ability children? We provide new evidence on this question by comparing … determinant of cognitive ability. We find that parents invest more in high ability children, with a one standard deviation …
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; parochialism ; experiments with children and adolescents …
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assessments. We find robust evidence that left-handed children do significantly worse in nearly all measures of development, with …, using data from child time use diaries, we find evidence that lefthanded children spend significantly less time each day on …
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