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According to Chen's (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the future by using present tense (like German). We complement...
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Children with lower socioeconomic status (SES) tend to benefit more from early child care, but are substantially less … likely to be enrolled. We study whether reducing behavioral barriers in the application process increases enrollment in child … care for lower-SES children. In our RCT in Germany with highly subsidized child care (n > 600), treated families receive …
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Discrimination is an ubiquitous phenomenon in many societies, but little is known about its origins in childhood. In a framed field experiment, we let 142 three to six-year old preschool children allocate a fixed endowment between an in-group and an out-group receiver in two domains (gender and...
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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 years later at the end of middle school, we find...
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