externalities inflicted by parents when they decide on their children's diet. Within an OLG model with an imperfectly altruistic …

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 …

influence of children's cognitive skills and parents' socioeconomic background on cooperation. …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 …

We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform … health. We further provide suggestive evidence that improved maternal health-related knowledge and behaviors during pregnancy … are plausible channels through which the reform might have affected fetal health. …

We study the consequences of mothers' and fathers' job loss for parents, families, and children. Rich Swedish register … with universal health care and free education is likely to be protective for children. … propensity score matching and controlling for pre-displacement outcomes. Our overall conclusion is positive: childhood health …

their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son's of affected parents at delivery. Yet …We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of …, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …

effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our … those with adverse prenatal health or high paternal BMI, an exception being that cognition is only affected by exposure at …

both sophisticated and naive procrastinators to reduce time-inconsistent behavior. A field experiment on exercising …

for mental health, little is still known about potential spillovers of these practices on other important life outcomes …, such as performance. We address this question through a field experiment in an educational setting. We study the causal … meditation training delivered to university students on campus. As expected, the intervention improves students' mental health …

Parental influences on children health related behaviours are argued to be gender assortative (e.g., that maternal … representative sample of English children and their parents for the period 1996-2009. We examine the magnitude and change of the … advantage of a unique dataset (Health Survey for England) containing records of clinically measured weight and height for a …