children with lower initial family incomes vs. children with higher initial family incomes. However, offsetting this effect …, our findings also suggest that as children grow up, changes in family income ranking over time are related to 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 … participation in a mentoring program designed to enrich the social environment of children. We document that the mentoring program …

data set. In particular, this alternative estimator allows us to exploit the information on children with no siblings in …

fetal growth rate is negatively associated with disruptive behaviors among male children. These results suggest that …

on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children's present bias and …We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children's intertemporal decision-making. Based … willing to pay money to override their children's choices. Parental interference predicts more intensive parenting styles and …

' prosocial attitudes are systematically related to elementary school children's prosociality. In a second step, we present … evidence on a randomly-assigned variation of the social environment, providing children with a mentor for the duration of one … gap in prosociality between low and high SES children. A mediation analysis of the observed treatment effect suggests that …

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 …