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 …

framed field experiment, we let 142 three to six-year old preschool children allocate a fixed endowment between an in …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

; parochialism ; experiments with children and adolescents …

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 …

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 …