We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children's intertemporal decision-making. Based … on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children's present bias and … aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure parental interference, we show that more than half of all parents are …

schools in Germany. Based on a pre-study, we compare the effectiveness of (i) a medal (ii) a letter of praise to the parents … a reward with a higher signaling value to their parents, independent of the school type. …

mothers 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 … observed developmental gap in prosociality between low and high SES children. Our findings suggest that the program serves as a …

This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio …-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well …

, associated with better health, educational and labor market outcomes as well as greater financial and overall well-being. Parents …' self-control is linked to reduced behavioral problems among their children. Importantly, we demonstrate that self …

fertility. While college education reduces the probability of becoming a mother, college-educated mothers have more children … than mothers without a college education. Lower child–income penalties of college-educated mothers of two relative to …

survey among 918 students of economics and other social sciences, we estimate the effects of studying in the different fields … individual well-being. Additionally, we also find that income and future job chances are the most important drivers of happiness …

significantly reduces contemporaneous academic performance, final educational attainment and labor income throughout the life …