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We examine U.S. children whose parents won the lottery to trace out the effect of financial resources on college …
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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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; parochialism ; experiments with children and adolescents …
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Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis." An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...
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Concerns over the perceived negative impacts of computers on social development among children are prevalent but … control experiment in which more than one thousand children attending grades 6-10 across 15 different schools and 5 school … districts in California were randomly given computers to use at home. Children in the treatment group are more likely to report …
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